Jason Dagit wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com <mailto:andrewcop...@btinternet.com>> wrote:Rather less fortunately, it still doesn't actually fix my problem: E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal configure Resolving dependencies... Configuring AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal sdist Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... Source tarball created: dist\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0.tar.gz cabal: dist\src\sdist.1288\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0\Data\HalfInteger.hs: removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied) I have no idea what the hell it's upset about now... I've now been trying to create this damned tarball since 5PM yesterday, and I still haven't managed it. At this point I'm losing the will to continue with this crazy project. Clearly this is way too much effort to expend just to upload 50 lines of code.I can't say for certain, but just reading the output it looks like it created a tarball in a temporary folder (that worked) and then when it tried to clean it up it failed. Sounds like a bug report is in order.
So, yet again, it appears I'm the first poor soul to try using this on Windows.
The very first time I tried to use Gtk2hs, the installer for Windows was trivially broken. In fairness, Duncan fixed this within an hour or two of me pointing out the problem. But the fact remains: It had been out for a week, and I was the *only* person to have tried to use it on Windows. (Or possibly the only person to actually complain, rather than just give up.) Don kept telling me about some cool Core syntax hilighter he wrote, so I went to all the trouble of downloading it, downloading and building all of its dependencies, only to discover "oh, by the way, it only works on Linux". A while back Cabal had a bug where (on Windows only) it couldn't find ld or something daft. [Again, fortunately that one got corrected - eventually - in the next GHC release.] I try to run sdist, and discover that that's broken on Windows too. But don't worry, there's a replacement tool... which is also broken on Windows... This is an exercise in pure frustration! Sometimes it seems as if *everything* is broken on Windows.
Hmm... I'm just ranting now. One presumes that when they "fixed" cabal sdist to work on Windows, at least one person checked that it did, in fact, work. That would mean it got broken again at some point after this. Maybe I just need to find an older version or something...
And after that... I guess I create *another* account on *another* bug tracker and submit *another* "hey, this is broken on Windows" ticket...
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