indeed, after thinking a wee bit more, yes, it'd be AMAZING if cabal devs made binaries visibly available to the community!
(also, it does seem like cabal / cabal-install docs aren't super discoverable for some people) On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki <haskell-o...@ben-kiki.org>wrote: > Hear hear! This would be most welcome. > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Carter Schonwald < > carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libraries mailing list >> librar...@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >> >> >
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