From 619d765646a23d7f22ac8c0dd256be10a5a278f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:27:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] simplify OSX installation instructions

The new Haskell Platform was released today, with the new ghc git-annex's
master branch needs, so cabal should be usable again on OSX.
---
 doc/install/OSX.mdwn | 13 ++-----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
index 1d8a3b9437..3c24609684 100644
--- a/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
+++ b/doc/install/OSX.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Install Haskel Platform from [[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html]].
+Install the Haskell Platform from [[http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html]].
 The version provided by Macports is too old to work with current versions of git-annex.
 Then execute
 
@@ -7,19 +7,10 @@ sudo port install git-core ossp-uuid md5sha1sum coreutils pcre
 
 sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/pcre.h  /usr/include/pcre.h # This is hack that allows pcre-light to find pcre
 
-git clone git://git-annex.branchable.com/ git-annex
-cd git-annex
-git checkout ghc7.0
-
 sudo cabal update
-cabal install --only-dependencies
-cabal configure
-cabal build
-cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin
+cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin
 </pre>
 
-Originally posted by Jon at <https://gist.github.com/671785> --[[Joey]], modified by [[kristianrumberg]]
-
 See also:
 
 * [[forum/OSX__39__s_haskell-platform_statically_links_things]]