Re: cabal-install-3.4-rc1 now available

2020-07-28 Thread Vanessa McHale
Happy to see Arm binaries there :) Cheers, Vanessa McHale > On Jul 27, 2020, at 11:00 AM, Oleg Grenrus wrote: > > The Cabal developers are happy to announce the first release candidate > for cabal-install-3.4.0.0 > > The corresponding tag is `cabal-install-3.4-rc1`, > > https://github.com

RE: Cabal install

2019-05-31 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
...@microsoft.com) Subject: RE: Cabal install Solution is to change directory (cd) somewhere else and try again. (There's also cabal install -z flag feature request, -z to ignore local project; but it's not yet merged). Yes, that's what I worked out in the end. But it does

RE: Cabal install

2019-05-31 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
#x27;s radically affected by which directory I'm in. I'm not saying it's wrong - everything about UI is a judgement - just that it may be very counter-productive for some users. Simon From: Oleg Grenrus Sent: 31 May 2019 09:31 To: Simon Peyton Jones ; cabal-devel@haskell.org Subject:

Re: Cabal install

2019-05-31 Thread Oleg Grenrus
linux-8.9.0.20190414 x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190508 x86_64-linux-8.6.4  x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190430 x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190527 bash$ ls ~/.ghc/x86_64-linux-8.6.4/ package.conf.d Simon *From:*Oleg Grenrus *Sent:* 30 May 2019 20:19 *To:* Simon Peyton Jones ; cabal-devel@haskell.org *Subject:* R

RE: Cabal install

2019-05-31 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
6_64-linux-8.9.0.20190414 x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190508 x86_64-linux-8.6.4 x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190430 x86_64-linux-8.9.0.20190527 bash$ ls ~/.ghc/x86_64-linux-8.6.4/ package.conf.d Simon From: Oleg Grenrus Sent: 30 May 2019 20:19 To: Simon Peyton Jones ; cabal-devel@haskell.org Subject: Re: Cab

Re: Cabal install

2019-05-30 Thread Oleg Grenrus
Hi Simon, my first guess is that: when working on the unsaturated type families paper, you did `cabal install --lib report`; or something similar. `report` is probably some internal library to that paper / project. In that case, you are hitting the unfortunate cabal bug [1]. To confirm, chec

Re: cabal-install rebooted?

2015-09-09 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 09/09/2015 10:08 AM, Kosyrev Serge wrote: > Bardur Arantsson writes: > >> On 09/09/2015 12:22 AM, Gershom B wrote: >>> That _does_ look simpler! >>> >>> However, I think there are multiple efforts underway towards the >>> nix-style stuff. We had a GSoC on that for example. And in that >>> work

Re: cabal-install rebooted?

2015-09-09 Thread Kosyrev Serge
Bardur Arantsson writes: > On 09/09/2015 12:22 AM, Gershom B wrote: >> That _does_ look simpler! >> >> However, I think there are multiple efforts underway towards the >> nix-style stuff. We had a GSoC on that for example. And in that >> workflow, if it all works out properly, then we end up wit

Re: cabal-install rebooted?

2015-09-08 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 09/09/2015 12:22 AM, Gershom B wrote: > That _does_ look simpler! > > However, I think there are multiple efforts underway towards the > nix-style stuff. We had a GSoC on that for example. And in that > workflow, if it all works out properly, then we end up with a > situation where since the ge

Re: cabal-install rebooted?

2015-09-08 Thread Gershom B
That _does_ look simpler! However, I think there are multiple efforts underway towards the nix-style stuff. We had a GSoC on that for example. And in that workflow, if it all works out properly, then we end up with a situation where since the general-user-db has no conflicts, then sandboxes are th

Re: cabal-install-1.20.0.2 binaries needed for Windows and Linux

2014-05-29 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 29 May 2014 20:09, Johan Tibell wrote: > Hi all, > > There's some important bug fixes in Cabal-1.20.0.1 and > cabal-install-1.20.0.2 and I'd like to upload some binaries to make it > easier for users to upgrade. Could someone build me a Windows binary? We > could also use Linux binaries, b

Re: cabal install fails with empty conflict set

2014-05-19 Thread Björn Peemöller
Am 19.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Andres Löh: > Hi Björn. > > Please see my latest comment on issue 1855 (which I believe to be > related or the same) at > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1855#issuecomment-43503323 for > a status update. I think I know what the problem is, but I still need > to

Re: cabal install fails with empty conflict set

2014-05-19 Thread Andres Löh
Hi Björn. Please see my latest comment on issue 1855 (which I believe to be related or the same) at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1855#issuecomment-43503323 for a status update. I think I know what the problem is, but I still need to fix it. Cheers, Andres

Re: cabal install fails with empty conflict set

2014-05-19 Thread Björn Peemöller
Am 19.05.2014 13:52, schrieb Andres Löh: > Hi. > > Could I get the .cabal file for curry-frontend-0.3.10 from somewhere? Hi Andres, you can find the packages curry-frontend and curry-base (used by the former) at: https://git-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de/curry The cabal files are: https://git-ps.

Re: cabal install fails with empty conflict set

2014-05-19 Thread Andres Löh
Hi. Could I get the .cabal file for curry-frontend-0.3.10 from somewhere? Cheers, Andres ___ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel

Re: cabal install fails with empty conflict set

2014-05-19 Thread Björn Peemöller
Am 19.05.2014 13:27, schrieb Björn Peemöller: > Hi, > > I am trying to install a cabal package in a fresh, clean sandbox, but > cabal fails with: > > cabal: Could not resolve dependencies: > Dependency tree exhaustively searched. Update: It works when I manually install the package trans

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-04 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
On 3 April 2014 17:38, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Presumably that's the problem. We'd have a possibly zero amount of > end-to-end security, coupled with a possibly zero amount of trust in the > remote endpoint, but we have 20 years of human factors experience > demonstrating that people trust SSL

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-03 Thread Gregory Collins
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > it appears that HsOpenSSL has some usage. If you care about security, it's the only viable option. Gnu TLS is really buggy in my experience and the Haskell "tls" package is not widely enough used to be a candidate (it also doesn't follow the

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> If it works, how would it be worse than using no encryption >> whatsoever? Sure, maybe there would be a false sense of security, but it >> seems like a step in the right direction

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-03 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > If it works, how would it be worse than using no encryption > whatsoever? Sure, maybe there would be a false sense of security, but it > seems like a step in the right direction. > Presumably that's the problem. We'd have a possibly zero amou

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Thursday, April 3, 2014, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Nikita Karetnikov > > > wrote: > >> > The big question we have to answer first is, how do we want to support >> SSL? >> > Do we want to use an existing, well-tested, well scrutinized SSL >> > implementation and F

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-03 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > > The big question we have to answer first is, how do we want to support > SSL? > > Do we want to use an existing, well-tested, well scrutinized SSL > > implementation and FFI bind to it? If so, which one and why? If not, are > we > > com

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> The big question we have to answer first is, how do we want to support SSL? > Do we want to use an existing, well-tested, well scrutinized SSL > implementation and FFI bind to it? If so, which one and why? If not, are we > comfortable enough with writing a correct SSL implementation? That's very

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > On 2014-04-01 at 22:43:47 +0200, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > > Turns out cabal-install itself uses HTTP. (Try to grep for "hackage" in > > the source tree.) Is it due to the HTTP library, which doesn't support > > HTTPS (4000.2.12

Re: cabal-install: Replacing HTTP with HTTPS

2014-04-02 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-04-01 at 22:43:47 +0200, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: > Turns out cabal-install itself uses HTTP. (Try to grep for “hackage” in > the source tree.) Is it due to the HTTP library, which doesn’t support > HTTPS (4000.2.12 returns “user error (https not supported)”)? > > Is there any interest in

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-29 Thread Jens Petersen
On 28 October 2013 18:39, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > Btw, are there any Linux distribution release out there which have not > reached end-of-life and yet provide GHC 6.12.x as their default GHC? > (The EPEL 5 repo for RHEL5 and derivatives still has ghc-6.12.3 but RHEL5 is also getting old.

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-28 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2013-10-28 at 09:31:49 +0100, Johan Tibell wrote: [...] >> Johan, was it you who cherry-picked it from master? Wasn't 1.18 >> supposed to still support 6.12? > This is my fault. I don't know if it's worth another Cabal release to fix > it though. 6.12 is more than 3 years old now. Fwiw, GHC

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-28 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Johan Tibell wrote: > >> This is my fault. I don't know if it's worth another Cabal release to fix >> it though. 6.12 is more than 3 years old now. > > > I have three (remote) machines where I could compile an

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-28 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Johan Tibell wrote: This is my fault. I don't know if it's worth another Cabal release to fix it though. 6.12 is more than 3 years old now. I have three (remote) machines where I could compile and run my stuff, all of them have GHC-6.12.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). If mask_ can

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Henning Thielemann > wrote: > > > > I am trying to compile cabal-install-1.18.0.2 on GHC-6.12.1. It aborts > > with: > > > > ... > > [12 of 73] Compiling Distrib

Re: cabal-install-1.18 on GHC-6.12

2013-10-27 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote: > > I am trying to compile cabal-install-1.18.0.2 on GHC-6.12.1. It aborts > with: > > ... > [12 of 73] Compiling Distribution.Client.Compat.Semaphore ( > Distribution/Client/Compat/Semaphore.hs, > dist/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Distribu

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Duncan, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > So what would a proper UI look like here? [...] Thanks, this makes sense. > The build > and install commands should work in a make-like fashion in that they > have to be able to discover/check which packages are up to date > (

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 12:47 +0100, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Andres Löh wrote: > > > > No, please do not remove it. Running install without --only causes all sorts > > of things to happen, because install is the magic command. The --only flag > > is for

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Hi, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: What is the purpose of the "install" command's "--only" flag? The documentation says "Only installs the package in the current directory", but this is already supported by running "cabal install" in the current directory without arguments. Before installing the pa

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Andres Löh wrote: > > No, please do not remove it. Running install without --only causes all sorts > of things to happen, because install is the magic command. The --only flag > is for use after you have already run build and really only does the > installatio

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Conrad Parker
On 15 March 2013 15:14, Andres Löh wrote: > Hi. > >> What is the purpose of the "install" command's "--only" flag? The >> documentation says "Only installs the package in the current >> directory", but this is already supported by running "cabal install" >> in the current directory without argumen

Re: cabal install --only

2013-03-15 Thread Andres Löh
Hi. > What is the purpose of the "install" command's "--only" flag? The > documentation says "Only installs the package in the current > directory", but this is already supported by running "cabal install" > in the current directory without arguments. Would it be fine if I > removed "--only"? No,

Re: cabal-install-1.16.0.2

2012-10-15 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Johan Tibell wrote: > Hi all, > > I've created bug fix release candidates for Cabal and cabal-install to > address the bugs found after the release. Here's the list of fixed bugs: Fixed since cabal-install-1.16.0: * Fix installing from custom folder on Linux (#

Re: cabal-install-ghc74 fixes

2012-05-28 Thread Andres Löh
Hi. As Ben said, cabal-install-0.14.0 should just work with ghc-7.4.1. The cabal-install-ghc74 package is "unofficial". Cheers, Andres -- Andres Löh, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com ___ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-de

Re: cabal-install-ghc74 fixes

2012-05-26 Thread Ben Millwood
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM, xemdetia . wrote: > Greetings, > > I was doing a clean, from scratch install of ghc-7.4.1 and was trying > to get cabal-install to work, and since I am new I tried to do all the > bootstrap.sh stuff myself. After failing and starting over I saw this > package (caba

Re: cabal-install version on hackage

2011-12-21 Thread Levent Erkok
>> Is there a known workaround to this problem, short of dropping the >> "self" dependency in the cabal file?  Would it be too much to ask if >> hackage can upgrade it's cabal? Would that break further things? > > Using a development version of cabal-install would run the risk of > breaking other p

Re: cabal-install version on hackage

2011-12-21 Thread Ross Paterson
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:34:33AM +, Levent Erkok wrote: > I'm suffering from the issue reported in here: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/656. In brief, cabal > had a bug that prevented it from running haddock successfully if a > package contained both a library and an executa

Re: cabal-install comment typo

2011-02-01 Thread Jens Petersen
On 1 February 2011 20:23, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 21:09 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote: >> Great, thanks.  (I already put it into Fedora's development tree >> since I got tired of binlib packages not getting dynamically linked...:) > > Ok, so my next question is whether this is cr

Re: cabal-install-0.8 final testing

2009-12-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 12:44 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > > The current Cabal code takes a slightly different approach. It says at > > the end "oh this exe isn't buildable, so its deps do not contribute to > > the deps of the package". > > > > The problem is what it was doing before that. It sees t

Re: cabal-install-0.8 final testing

2009-12-21 Thread Simon Marlow
On 20/12/2009 01:46, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:44 -0800, Dave Bayer wrote: Hi Duncan, Installation was easy (I typed "cabal-install HTTP zlib cabal-install" ;-). Thanks for testing it. I've uploaded it to hackage. Overall, seems to work fine. I couldn't build darcs, but

Re: cabal-install-0.8 final testing

2009-12-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 19:44 -0800, Dave Bayer wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > Installation was easy (I typed "cabal-install HTTP zlib > cabal-install" ;-). Thanks for testing it. I've uploaded it to hackage. > Overall, seems to work fine. I couldn't build darcs, but I couldn't do > that by hand either;

Re: Cabal-install and GHC

2009-10-22 Thread Robin Green
You're missing at least one patch (see below) - maybe you could put up your repository somewhere? darcs: Cannot apply this patch bundle, since we're missing: Sun Oct 11 17:56:44 BST 2009 Brent Yorgey * add 'init' subcommand for initializing project cabalisation ___

Re: cabal-install for ghc 6.12 rc1

2009-10-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:49 +0100, Robin Green wrote: > Uh-oh. This looks like a big chunk of work (the package index type is > no longer polymorphic in cabal 1.8.0). Yes. Installed packages are no longer identified by a PackageId, they're now identified by a separate InstalledPackageId and there

Re: cabal-install fails with tar checksum error

2009-04-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 15:45 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: > On WinXP. I've uploaded Takusen-0.8.4 to hackage, and thought I'd see > how well cabal-install downloads and installs it. > > cabal install Takusen --flags="sqlite odbc oracle postgres" --reinstall -v3 > > results in (with some trimmin

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:53 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: > 2009/4/20 Duncan Coutts : > > > > It's using the IE proxy information from the registry. Check the IE > > "internet settings". If you think it's wrong that it's using it then > > file a ticket, I mean for example if it were using the proxy

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-23 Thread Alistair Bayley
2009/4/20 Duncan Coutts : > > It's using the IE proxy information from the registry. Check the IE > "internet settings". If you think it's wrong that it's using it then > file a ticket, I mean for example if it were using the proxy when the > settings say that the proxy is disabled. It's using the

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:25 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: > 2009/4/16 Duncan Coutts : > > Try: > > > > cabal fetch binary -v3 > > > > It should give you plenty of detail on the HTTP conversation. Could you > > also file a ticket pointing out how useless the default error message is > > when the dow

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-20 Thread Alistair Bayley
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/545 > > fetch -v3 output below. Seems to be trying to use a proxy, but that's > not necessary as the machine is "directly" connected (via a router). On my machine, IE has proxy settings configured, Firefox does not (I rarely use IE). cabal seems to

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-20 Thread Alistair Bayley
2009/4/16 Duncan Coutts : > Try: > > cabal fetch binary -v3 > > It should give you plenty of detail on the HTTP conversation. Could you > also file a ticket pointing out how useless the default error message is > when the download fails. We should at least tell the user the HTTP error > code. http

Re: cabal-install fails on WinXP

2009-04-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:17 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: > I've tried using cabal-install (cabal.exe) for the first time to > install yi, and all of the packages fail to download. Reducing to a > simple test case, "cabal install binary" fails with: > > Resolving dependencies... > Downloading bina

Re: Cabal install broken with GHC 6.10.1.* HEAD

2009-03-02 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:13 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > I'm afraid I had to roll back the GHC version - its my work computer > and not being able to work on it turned out to be an issue... > > >> This causes cabal install to break, as it implicitly adds > >> base == 3.0.2.0 which

Re: Cabal install broken with GHC 6.10.1.* HEAD

2009-03-02 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Duncan, I'm afraid I had to roll back the GHC version - its my work computer and not being able to work on it turned out to be an issue... >> This causes cabal install to break, as it implicitly adds >> base == 3.0.2.0 which nothing has so nothing installs. > > There's something else going on.

Re: Cabal install broken with GHC 6.10.1.* HEAD

2009-02-26 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:13 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed GHC 6.10.1.20090225 which has set base as > 3.0.3.0, instead of the 3.0.2.0 which GHC 6.10.1 had (I think). Note that both ghc-6.10.1 and the current darcs version of the ghc-6.10.x branch come with base 3.0.3.

Re: cabal-install sends invalid proxy password

2008-12-18 Thread Valery V. Vorotyntsev
On 12/18/08, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > So, the Right Way(TM) to make cabal-install go through proxies is > > fixing `userinfo' function of `network' package (see the > > `network-2.2.0.1.patch'). > > Good work. We should have this reviewed by the maintainers of the > network package. > > > Unt

Re: cabal-install sends invalid proxy password

2008-12-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 16:05 +0200, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote: > Dear lazy programmers, > > I was surprised to discover that `cabal-install' -- a popular utility > for installing Hackage packages -- cannot work with HTTP proxies. > Despite all the necessary code linked in. Thanks for reporting t

Re: cabal install franchise now works

2008-10-11 Thread Stephen Hicks
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As of franchise-0.0.2 and cabal-install-0.5.10 it works to: > > $ cabal install franchise ... > The main ongoing difficulty will be that cabal-install and other > packaging systems, rpm, etc assume rather more than the orig

Re: cabal-install calls setup with unrecognised distpref flag

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:40 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:37 +0200, José Pedro Magalhães wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I decided to bring this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too in case anyone > > had the same problem before. > > It'll be a bug in cabal-install. It's passing a flag

Re: cabal-install calls setup with unrecognised distpref flag

2008-08-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 11:37 +0200, José Pedro Magalhães wrote: > Hello all, > > I decided to bring this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too in case anyone > had the same problem before. It'll be a bug in cabal-install. It's passing a flag to a Setup.hs that was built with an older version of the Cabal lib t

Re: cabal-install calls setup with unrecognised distpref flag

2008-08-19 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
Hello all, I decided to bring this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too in case anyone had the same problem before. Cheers, Pedro On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:38, José Pedro Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently, while developing a package here in the group, we changed the > build-ty

Re: Cabal-Install User Experience Feedback

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 12:22 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > Can you suggest anything? Currently --help says: > >--enable-library-vanilla Enable Vanilla libraries >--disable-library-vanilla Disable Vanilla libraries > -p --enable-library-prof

Re: Cabal-Install User Experience Feedback

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:52 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > The main page has the instructions for bug reporting (or via > the cabal home page): > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ > > Ah, I didn't think to go there. I was focused on cabal-install. So clearly we need

Re: Cabal-Install User Experience Feedback

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 22:58 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to use cabal-install but my user experience was less than > satisfactory. Thanks for the feedback Jason. Sorry, I did have a longer version of this email but my net connection currently seems to be having trouble sending

Re: cabal-install mailing list?

2008-08-02 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 10:09 -0400, Denis Bueno wrote: > Is there a cabal-install mailing list, or should this list be used? > If not, where else? This list covers the Cabal library, cabal-install and hackage server development and surrounding issues. Duncan __

Re: Cabal install performs worse on Hugs

2008-06-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:05 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > Using Cabal 1.4 Branch and Cabal-install HEAD: > > C:\Neil\uniplate>cabal install --hugs > Resolving dependencies... Should work now. Also "cabal install --hugs whatever" should also work. It assumes that all deps of "whatever"

Re: Cabal install performs worse on Hugs

2008-06-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 21:00 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:05 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using Cabal 1.4 Branch and Cabal-install HEAD: > > > > C:\Neil\uniplate>cabal install --hugs > > Resolving dependencies... > > cabal: internal error: could not constr

Re: Cabal install performs worse on Hugs

2008-06-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 15:05 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > Using Cabal 1.4 Branch and Cabal-install HEAD: > > C:\Neil\uniplate>cabal install --hugs > Resolving dependencies... > cabal: internal error: could not construct a valid install plan. > The proposed (invalid) plan contained the fo

Re: cabal-install failure: yi

2008-06-13 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:54 -0400, Darrin Thompson wrote: > I'm reposting this here as something bad appeared to happen to my post > on haskell-cafe and I probably should have posted here anyway. It did make it though and here is the reply that I posted to haskell-cafe. Further to that, do feel

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-22 Thread Henrique Ferreiro García
The problem I see is that each compiler dependent function has its own post-install actions: GHC has stripExe, updateLibArchive..., Hugs has setPermissions, etc. Maybe, while this refactorization work isn't correctly done, a function could be done to return the list of files to update and the post

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 13:48 +0200, Henrique Ferreiro García wrote: > It seems to be a little more complicated. Each compiler has a installExe > and installLibs (or a joined install) functions which also mix > collecting files and copying them. Ah yes. > I think that the right thing to do would b

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-16 Thread Henrique Ferreiro García
It seems to be a little more complicated. Each compiler has a installExe and installLibs (or a joined install) functions which also mix collecting files and copying them. I think that the right thing to do would be to abstract away those compiler functions in a module with the same interface for a

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:28 +0200, Henrique Ferreiro García wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to get involved in haskell development and I think this could > be a good start. I don't know how much time I'll have to do this, but if > you give me that advice I'll try to implement this functionality. Great

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-06 Thread Marc Weber
Hi Benedikt. Having a ./setup install-update-remove-outdated seems to be fine.. However how should cabal know which package versions are needed by your applications? Eg you might be working on a project requiring xhtml-3000.0.2.1 (A) and beeing not compatible with xhtml-3001 ? So this should only

Re: cabal-install uninstall ?

2008-05-06 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:30 +0200, Benedikt Huber wrote: > Hello, > > I appreciate ongoing work with cabal-install. I've tried the latest > darcs version on a clean fresh ghc, and it worked fine. Great. > I wonder however, if there is any support (planned) for removing > outdated packages. For

Re: cabal install

2007-11-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:46 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote: > Crap, so cabal-install is totally broken with 6.8.1. Yep :-( > cabal-install is trying to find ld even before it has started to > install a package. We could cd to $tmpdir/something, and run > findCompiler there. Nasty hack workaround th

Re: cabal install

2007-11-05 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Nov 5, 2007, at 0:27 , Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:22 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote: On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: it works fine for me, but I only have GHC 6.6.1 at the moment. What platform are you on? It'll be using Cabal-1.2.2.0 I'm not s

Re: cabal install

2007-11-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:22 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote: > On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: > it works fine for me, but I only have GHC 6.6.1 at the moment. What > platform are you on? It'll be using Cabal-1.2.2.0 > I'm not sure what the dist/Conftest.c error is about.

Re: cabal install

2007-11-04 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: Hi, I thought I should report this too you: cabal install doesn't work for me: (update and list work) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ cabal -v3 install vty Configuration: compiler: GHC repos: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/pa

Re: cabal-install build-dep error

2007-05-13 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Adrian Burciu a écrit : > Hello, > > I am a beginner in Haskell, and I am having a problem using > cabal-install when I try to install the dependencies for a .cabal > file. > > If I use I am able to > install every package, one by one. When I installed cabal-install I > ha

Re: [shelarcy] Re: Cabal-Install doesn't work well on Windows.

2006-05-10 Thread Alson Kemp
es <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would anyone care to try to get cabal-install going on windows? Or > should we see about getting it going correctly in Unix first? > > peace, > > isaac > > > > To: cabal-devel@haskell.org > CC: "Isaac Jones"

[shelarcy] Re: Cabal-Install doesn't work well on Windows.

2006-05-10 Thread Isaac Jones
Would anyone care to try to get cabal-install going on windows? Or should we see about getting it going correctly in Unix first? peace, isaac --- Begin Message --- Hello. On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:31:35 +0900, Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. We're

Re: Cabal-Install doesn't work well on Windows.

2006-05-09 Thread shelarcy
Hello. On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:31:35 +0900, Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. We're scrapping that version of cabal-install and replacing it with a better version that can download packages from the internet. I'd certainly be happy to hear any reports of