Agreed, this would improve usability of binary GHC releases a lot, and I don't see any downsides.
+1 Roman * Carter Schonwald <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> [2014-01-19 19:02:27-0500] > Hey everyone, > > I'd like to propose that GHC releases 7.8.1 onwards include a cabal-install > (aka cabal) executable, but not include the library deps of cabal-install > that aren't already distributed with ghc.(unless ghc should have those deps > baked in, which theres very very good reasons not to do.). > > currently if someone wants just a basic haskell install of the freshest ghc > they have to install a ghc bindist, then do a boostrap build of > cabal-install by hand (if they want to actually get anything done :) ). > > This is not a human friendly situation for folks who are new to haskell > tooling, but want to try out haskell dev on a server style vm or the like! > > point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of > config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers included > a cabal-install binary > > thoughts? > -Carter > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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