Thanks. I still am not able to contribute to elm-lang.org without a proper set up. In order to develop, how *exactly *should and which versions of, elm, ghc, and cabal be installed most reliably?
On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:39:07 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer wrote: > > I tried 0.16, because that’s what’s in the README*. Others have been > scolded for not reading the instructions closely. > > In all fairness, the README of https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-lang.org > says to use 0.17, not 0.16. > > > 2016-08-30 19:30 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected] > <javascript:>>: > >> >> - Yes, 8.0.1 as Richard pointed out in that commit. >> - I tried 0.16, because that's what's in the README*. Others have >> been scolded for not reading the instructions closely. >> - Yes, I also tried 0.17.1, and that failed as well. >> >> For me, what is needed is a more explicit set of instructions than >> > Before getting Haskell Platform, make sure it is going to give you >> these things <https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html>. >> >> As someone who has never used Haskell, and is just getting going with >> Elm, I would rather see explicit, tested, instructions. >> *I tried to make a minor fix to these, but there are some odd errors in >> Travis. Maybe these will help shed some light. >> >> https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L754-L794 >> https://travis-ci.org/elm-lang/elm-platform/jobs/156272879#L861 >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:57:41 PM UTC-4, Janis Voigtländer wrote: >>> >>> >>> - That does not yet tell me which version of GHC you have. I could >>> guess that 8.0.1, but is that the case? >>> - Why is it that you try to install 0.16 of the platform in your >>> gist, rather than 0.17 or better yet 0.17.1? >>> - It is not clear that GHC 8.0.1 will fail you (with 0.17.1 of >>> elm-platform). Have you tried? >>> >>> >>> >>> 2016-08-30 18:53 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> I'm on Mac. I installed *ghc* via brew cask install haskell-platform. >>>> >>>> It's not clear where or how to obtain GHC < 8.0.1 reliably or >>>> consistently. >>>> >>>> https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/commit/f46c95cf826651c56cf11388148df4406a834ee8 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:49:38 PM UTC-4, Joey Eremondi wrote: >>>>> >>>>> @suttlecommakevin Are you trying to use Elm from Hackage, or the Elm >>>>> platform? Hackage elm is woefully out of date. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Janis Voigtländer < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> You don't feel like telling us which GHC version you are trying to do >>>>>> this with? >>>>>> >>>>>> 2016-08-30 18:11 GMT+02:00 suttlecommakevin <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I get missing deps, but because of conflicts that were rejected. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://gist.github.com/kevinSuttle/a867b0d2048f6f6c6f646964061ec3c1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 11:19:13 PM UTC-4, Evan Cameron >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've installed elm on arch using a cabal sandbox and the cabal >>>>>>>> install methods. I've added the /bin directory to my path so commands >>>>>>>> like >>>>>>>> elm-get run from everywhere. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm trying to build the elm-lang.org locally but cabal configure >>>>>>>> fails >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ➜ elm-lang.org git:(stable) elm-get install >>>>>>>> Installing all declared dependencies... >>>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-webgl >>>>>>>> Checking out version 0.1 >>>>>>>> Cloning repo johnpmayer/elm-linear-algebra >>>>>>>> Checking out version 1.0 >>>>>>>> Success! >>>>>>>> ➜ elm-lang.org git:(stable) cabal configure >>>>>>>> Resolving dependencies... >>>>>>>> Configuring elm-website-0.1.0.2... >>>>>>>> cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing: >>>>>>>> Elm >=0.12, >>>>>>>> HTTP -any, >>>>>>>> aeson -any, >>>>>>>> blaze-html -any, >>>>>>>> blaze-markup -any, >>>>>>>> cmdargs -any, >>>>>>>> mtl -any, >>>>>>>> snap-core -any, >>>>>>>> snap-server -any, >>>>>>>> unordered-containers -any >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> how is it even possible that elm-get ran if Elm is missing? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Elm Discuss" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Elm Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. 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