Dave Bayer wrote:
There's clearly something wrong with this picture. A Rorschach blot
test as to what's wrong, but I see people overreaching, if I have to
wait weeks for a simple install tool, then months for the Haskell
Platform to be ready.
Hopefully future GHC releases will go more
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Dave Bayer ba...@cpw.math.columbia.edu wrote:
Background: I never got cabal install to work on OS X 10.5 with GHC 6.10.4,
basically because zlib wouldn't work. Odd, because a perfectly good version
of gunzip already exists on most platforms, and the code
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 14:00 -0800, Dave Bayer wrote:
Background: I never got cabal install to work on OS X 10.5 with GHC
6.10.4, basically because zlib wouldn't work. Odd, because a perfectly
good version of gunzip already exists on most platforms, and the code
doesn't fall back to this
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Antoine Latter wrote:
Do you have any more information about this failure? It seems like it
would be easier to get zlib to work than to replicate cabal-install.
From http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/afz6n/cabalinstallpy/ :
dcoutts
BTW, the reason you
I wrote the barest possible python script this morning as a poor-man's
replacement for cabal install.
Here is the script cabal-install.py and a sample use,
GLUT-2.2.2.0-install.sh :
http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=14367
I put up a web page with better directions, after some good experiences testing
this script for my own use:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/Haskell/cabal-install/
On Dec 17, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Dave Bayer wrote:
I wrote the barest possible python script this morning as a poor-man's
