that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to make the "my first ghc install on a vm" (for experts and new folks both)
go from #install ghc via whatever mechanism, eg wget, guntar, cd blah ; make install PREFIX=yah #figure out how to install cabal, eg discover wget and then ./bootstrap # cabal install thingsIwannaTry to # install ghc via some wget and make #cabal install nice things On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Carter Schonwald > <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of > > config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers > included > > a cabal-install binary > > For Windows, we provide a stand-alone cabal.exe on the Cabal site [1]. > I guess we could do the same for Linux and OS X. > > [1] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments >
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