>>> Cabal-1.8.0.2 will be downloaded and installed. >> >> That's a bad sign. >> Have you downoaded the bundle from the cabal-install page? > > Ermmm, yeeees [sudden pangs of guilt] was that not the right thing to do? > >> That's not the right thing to do > > Darn! > >> (yeah, somebody should tell unsuspecting travellers). > > We would kinda appreciate it :-)
This gave me some deja vu so I checked my sent mail, turns out on May 19 I wrote about the same thing. I updated one wiki page to not point to that cabal page, but I don't have permissions to take down the page itself. No one responded to my email so I forgot I had sent it and never been answered. So I repeat: If you search for "cabal install", the first link is http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall, which in turn leads to http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html. It looks very official and canonical and all that, but that page has an old version of cabal install that will no longer compile with ghc7 because it requires old libraries. Of course it won't tell you that right off, first it will install a whole bunch of old stuff, charge you a fiver, and then emit some "constraint can't be satisfied" msgs which if you have some experience with haskell and cabal already should eventually tip you off that something's wrong. Is there someone out there who has permissions to either take that page down, or replace it with a link to the new version at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install? I updated http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall to point to the platform and to the hackage page, but the cabal page at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install still links to http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html. Should I just replace the haskellwiki page with a link to the hackagewiki one? I would try to port over any up to date info of course. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe