We could offer OS X and Linux binaries in addition to the Windows binaries already downloaded on the cabal home page (http://www.haskell.org/cabal/) if someone could commit to building them.
Aside: Right now building the Windows binaries is a very ad-hoc process (I email Mikhail who has a Windows machine and ask him to build one). I'm not very keen to make the process even slower, given that that will mean I will make fewer cabal releases. Ideally the binaries could be produced on a build bot. The very least we should have the Makefile in the cabal repo being able to create the binary in a reproducible manner. -- Johan On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam <gan...@earth.li>wrote: > I feel this blurs the roles of GHC and the Platform. > > Can't the cabal-install that comes with the Platform can be used with a > later GHC installation? If that's correct, then the only use case that > this proposal covers is someone who wants to use a bleeding edge GHC and > no other version on a new machine. A separate binary distribution of > cabal-install should be more than adequate for that and it avoids > coupling GHC to other things. > > So a weak -1. > > > On 20/01/2014 00:02, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I'd like to propose that GHC releases 7.8.1 onwards include a > > cabal-install (aka cabal) executable, but not include the library deps > > of cabal-install that aren't already distributed with ghc.(unless ghc > > should have those deps baked in, which theres very very good reasons not > > to do.). > > > > currently if someone wants just a basic haskell install of the freshest > > ghc they have to install a ghc bindist, then do a boostrap build of > > cabal-install by hand (if they want to actually get anything done :) ). > > > > This is not a human friendly situation for folks who are new to haskell > > tooling, but want to try out haskell dev on a server style vm or the > like! > > > > 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 > > > > thoughts? > > -Carter > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Libraries mailing list > > librar...@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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