Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Andrew, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 9:26:45 PM, you wrote: It seems that the [Haskell] GLUT package isn't installed. at least i remember my own proposal to remove from GHC distribution graphics packages - because they are fat, rarely used and mostly outdated Hackage. ;-) But, alas,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Jules Bean
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: No GLUT is not bundled with GHC 6.8.1 anymore. Yes, that is weird. I think it's weird too, so I bug reported it: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1917 Jules ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Andrew, Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 9:26:45 PM, you wrote: Hackage. ;-) But, alas, no. That doesn't work either. The reason? Well, apparently Cabal can't find sh. cabal by itself doesn't need sh. it's either required by library installation or it as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-22 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 22, 2007, at 14:22 , Andrew Coppin wrote: My first question would be: - Is there a viable alternative to sh scripts for installing packages? If there is, it would seem it's just an issue of getting everybody to migrate to it. If there isn't, it looks like we need to make one...

RE: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-21 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
No GLUT is not bundled with GHC 6.8.1 anymore. Yes, that is weird. It was bundled with GHC 6.6.1. But installing it for GHC 6.8.1 is really easy, but you have to install msys/mingw first. So if you want to do some experiments with OpenGL without having to install other stuff, use GHC 6.6.1.

RE: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-21 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
'; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris] No GLUT is not bundled with GHC 6.8.1 anymore. Yes, that is weird. It was bundled with GHC 6.6.1. But installing it for GHC 6.8.1 is really easy, but you have to install msys/mingw first. So if you want to do some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Young
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: No GLUT is not bundled with GHC 6.8.1 anymore. Yes, that is weird. It was bundled with GHC 6.6.1. But installing it for GHC 6.8.1 is really easy, but you have to install msys/mingw first. This is handled in Ruby-land by having binary packages available for Windows,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] More problems [Tetris]

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Coppin
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: No GLUT is not bundled with GHC 6.8.1 anymore. Yes, that is weird. It was bundled with GHC 6.6.1. OK, so it was there, but now it isn't, and this fact isn't documented. Should I file a ticket for this? (To get the release notes amended if nothing else.) Was GLUT