Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-02 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Ryan Newton wrote: I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over multiple threads. Did cabal install random actually fail for you under ghc-7.4.0.20111219? If so I'd love to know about it as the maintainer of the random

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-02 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:35:25PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Ryan Newton wrote: I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over multiple threads. Did cabal install random actually fail for you under

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-02 Thread Ryan Newton
Just FYI it is possible to use OLD cabal binaries with the new GHC 7.4. No need to necessarily rebuild cabal-install with GHC 7.4. I do this all the time. Perhaps it's a bad practice ;-). -Ryan On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-01 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: Today, it is very unusual to use GHC by itself. To use Haskell, you install the Haskell Platform. That is GHC together with Cabal and a basic set of libraries. It is very easy to install. Wolfram Kahl wrote: However, since you are willing and able to test bleeding-edge versions of

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2012-01-01 Thread Ryan Newton
I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over multiple threads. Did cabal install random actually fail for you under ghc-7.4.0.20111219? If so I'd love to know about it as the maintainer of the random package. (It seems to work for me for random-1.0.1.1.) That said, I'm

ghc-cabal-Random

2011-12-31 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
People, I have ghc-7.4.0.20111219 made from source and tested it on the DoCon-2.12 application -- thanks to people for their help! It looks all right. This was -- with skipping the module Random. Now it remains to add the Random package. I have taken AC-Random Version 0.1 from hackage. Its

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2011-12-31 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: I have  ghc-7.4.0.20111219  made from source and tested it on the DoCon-2.12 application -- thanks to people for their help! It looks all right. This was -- with skipping the module Random Now it remains to add the Random package. I have taken  AC-Random Version

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2011-12-31 Thread Wolfram Kahl
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: I have  ghc-7.4.0.20111219  made from source and tested it on the DoCon-2.12 application -- thanks to people for their help! It looks all right. This was -- with skipping the module Random Now it

Re: ghc-cabal-Random

2011-12-31 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 15:46, Serge D. Mechveliani mech...@botik.ruwrote: Its installation requires Cabal: which cabal cabal: Command not found. And Cabal is difficult to install, it reports that such and such package versions are missing. On the other hand, Cabal is, probably,