On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 13:58 +1030, Michael Mounteney wrote: > Hello, I have an application that uses/used Text.Regex and have just updated > GHC from 6.6.1 to 6.8.2 and it seems that Text.Regex is gone, so I'm trying > to install the replacement from Hackage. > > First of all, the procedure is quite tedious as one has to install the > hierarchy of dependencies manually but apparently there are moves to automate > this process.
Yes. You can try cabal-install now if you like: http://haskell.org/cabal/code.html though be prepared to report bugs and limitations: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage That said, I use it all the time now. It's much quicker than manually downloading and configuring everything. > The procedure stalled on regex-base-0.92. None of the 0.9x versions have been updated for the base-3 library that comes with ghc-6.8 now. Instead try using: regex-base-0.72.0.1 regex-posix-0.72.0.2 regex-compat-0.71.0.1 These versions work with ghc-6.8 and earlier. These would be the "latest" versions if it were not for the 0.9x series. We need some way to tell hackage or cabal-install that the latest version is not necessarily the best or recommended version. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe