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 Hackage elm is woefully out of date.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?
>>>>>>>>
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