On Friday 22 April 2011 13:57:36, Richard Cobbe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:27:10PM -0500, Antoine Latter wrote: > > 1. A side note - using the 'cabal' command line tool is easier for > > many tasks than 'runhaskell Setup'. In particular, it does a user > > install by default. > > Interesting -- didn't know that was possible. I didn't see that in the > Cabal manual; section 4 gives instructions entirely in terms of > 'runhaskell Setup'. Am I overlooking something? >
On the one hand, the Cabal user's guide is a little out of date. More importantly, there's a difference between the Cabal library and the 'cabal' executable (which you get from the cabal-install package). The Cabal user's guide can't assume that you have the cabal executable, but it can assume you have runhaskell (since without a Haskell implementation, installing Haskell libraries is doomed to fail anyway). However, if the user's guide gets updated, the cabal way will probably (and definitely should) be added. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
