On 2014-04-01 at 22:43:47 +0200, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > Turns out cabal-install itself uses HTTP. (Try to grep for “hackage” in > the source tree.) Is it due to the HTTP library, which doesn’t support > HTTPS (4000.2.12 returns “user error (https not supported)”)? > > Is there any interest in changing the current state of things? And if > so, what is the best way to do it? Would you like to switch to a > different library?
The main problem is, that cabal-install tries to rely only on HP packages; so for now HTTP is the only HTTP-library included in the HP, maybe a good place to start would be https://github.com/haskell/HTTP/issues/17 HTH, hvr _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel