All - Don and I talked a bit about this at BayHac: The .cabal file for Haskell Platform can't include cabal-install because (if I recall) cabal can't handle cabal-install as a build-tool dependency. This normally doesn't matter (I suppose) because if someone is using haskell-platform.cabal to install the platform, then they already must have cabal-install installed (though perhaps not the right version?)
However, seems to me this make a glaring omission in the source tarball, since cabal-install isn't there. As i build the Mac OS X installer from that, cabal-install isn't showing up. I have a patch to src/generic/prepare.sh that uncomments cabal-install in a copy of haskell-platform.cabal before it is fed to Build.hs. This is (gack) done with sed. It would probably be better for the "OFFICIAL" haskell-platform.cabal file to include cabal-install, and then have some script comment it out for the "use this to cabal install the platform" .cabal file. Thoughts? In particular, is there any problem including cabal-install in the source tarball? - Mark _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
