On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:02 -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > Hello, > What is the preferred way to install a cabal package so that it works > with winhugs? When I tried "cabal install --user --hugs" I got an > error that it could not find "hugsffi". I managed to get things > working by manually downloading the package, and extracting the > appropriate source directories to the "packages" folder of winhugs > (i.e., basically skipping cabal) but this is kind of clunky. So to > summarize, here are my two questions: > 1. Am I doing something wrong, or does "cabal" not support WinHugs?, and > 2. Does WinHugs have a user specific "packages" folder (so that each > user can have their own set of packages)?
I've never tried with winhugs and to be honest we don't test much with hugs either. Don't take that as a discouragement though, it'd be great to have better support for hugs and winhugs in the cabal tool. All it needs is someone to pay it a little attention. For the specific issue, does winhugs come with the hugsffi tool? I expect that it should do though perhaps it's hidden away in some directory. I believe that by default hugs uses $HOME/lib/packages/* for per-user packages. I'm not quite sure what winhugs does. It'd be good to adjust the defaults to make this "just work". Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
