Thanks Oleg
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.
I am confident I did nothing like that. But there is a file called
report.caba
Few points, If you run Windows 10 (Pro?), you can setup to make symlinks
without needing administrator privileges
Actually I've now switched to using the Windows Subsytem for Linux (WSL), which
works pretty well and means that I don't need to be the beta-tester for windows
:-). I should have s
Hi Simon,
I see, you triggered another feature/bug of cabal install, namely when
you are in a project directory, project settings affect solving process.
And when there's a .cabal file, it's a project.
So cabal tried to find an install plan containing local packages (that
makes sense, if you t
Sorry, I wrote non-sense, the command is
cabal user-config update
--
cabal-install-3.0.0.0 is the latest (and in fact non-released) version
you can have. Your last (failed) attempt actually wanted to install
cabal-install-2.4.1.0!
Reinstalling cabal-install (from Hackage) via 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 doesn't feel like a
solution; it feels like a workaround.
My point is t
PS: would a -z flag have helped me? Alas no: I would never have found it. I
had no idea that cabal was looking at a local project.
I can see this is a difficult UI problem
From: Simon Peyton Jones
Sent: 31 May 2019 10:10
To: Oleg Grenrus ; cabal-devel@haskell.org
Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones (simo...
Reinstalling cabal-install (from Hackage) via cabal-install is currently not
well exercised codepath. People usually install cabal from either Herbert's
PPA, via ghcup or chocolatey package managers. So even I don't see reason
installing cabal-install via cabal-install shouldn't work, I don't re
