Agreed. That's exactly what we have Platform for: to give the user an integrated set of tools. My vote is to have only the things that are really necessary being included in the ghc distribution.
Отправлено с iPad > 21 янв. 2014 г., в 23:22, Ganesh Sittampalam <gan...@earth.li> написал(а): > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
