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by cgag 4368 days ago
I think you should figure out what's going on with with your dev environment and go with Haskell. Are you using the Haskell platform? If so I would ditch that and make sure to install everything in a sandbox, I've had very little trouble with cabal since I went with just cabal + sandboxes. I'm on linux but Chris Allen's guide has instructions for a minimal OSX install: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

If none of that helps, come to freenode #haskell, those packages really should work.
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peterhunt 4368 days ago
OK, you gave me the encouragement to try it again.

I ran into a bunch of bugs getting haskell platform set up correctly on OSX (wouldn't remove my old version, had to manually remove GHC, also reported this one https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1980) but after reinstalling Haskell platform it seems to be working better. Thanks.

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