Thanks for the reply. I got cabal-install from
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/ and assumed it was the latest
version... but now that I look carefully I see it has a 2.0 branch. I
compiled it and I don't get that confusing "parse error" any more. It
looks like a nicer error message in general t
Hi!
I ran into the same problem.
Apparently, we need cabal-install 2.0, which has not been released yet.
A preliminary solution is to use the development version from the 2.0
branch. Binary packages can be found at
http://ppa.launchpad.net/hvr/ghc/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cabal-install-2.0/ ,
f
This seems like a silly question, but how can we install cabal-install
now? The latest hackage version 1.24.0.2 has Cabal (>=1.24.2 &&
<1.25), but it looks like ghc Cabal is now at 2.*.
I ran into this because if I get:
% cabal install --only-dependencies
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: interna
Wolfgang Jeltsch writes:
> Am Samstag, den 22.07.2017, 23:03 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari:
>> In addition, there are a number of new features,
>>
>> * A new, more type-safe type reflection mechanism
>>
>> * The long-awaited Backpack module system
>>
>> * Deriving strategies to disambiguate betw
Am Samstag, den 22.07.2017, 23:03 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari:
> In addition, there are a number of new features,
>
> * A new, more type-safe type reflection mechanism
>
> * The long-awaited Backpack module system
>
> * Deriving strategies to disambiguate between GHC's various instance
> deri
Minor editorial note (thanks to everyone who brought this to my attention):
The URL listed in the announcement for the release notes isn't quite
right. The release notes can be found at,
> https://haskell.org/ghc/docs/8.2.1/html/users_guide/8.2.1-notes.html
>
Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
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