Hey everyone,
I'd like to propose that GHC releases 7.8.1 onwards include a cabal-install
(aka cabal) executable, but not include the library deps of cabal-install
that aren't already distributed with ghc.(unless ghc should have those deps
baked in, which theres very very good reasons not to
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Carter Schonwald
carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote:
point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of
config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers included
a cabal-install binary
For Windows, we provide a
that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to
make the my first ghc install on a vm (for experts and new folks both)
go from
#install ghc via whatever mechanism, eg wget, guntar, cd blah ; make
install PREFIX=yah
#figure out how to install cabal, eg discover wget and
Carter Schonwald wrote:
that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to
make the my first ghc install on a vm (for experts and new folks both)
go from
#install ghc via whatever mechanism, eg wget, guntar, cd blah ; make
install PREFIX=yah
#figure out how to
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Carter Schonwald
carter.schonw...@gmail.com wrote:
that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to
make the my first ghc install on a vm (for experts and new folks both)
Regardless, I think it should be the Cabal developers' job
indeed, after thinking a wee bit more, yes, it'd be AMAZING if cabal devs
made binaries visibly available to the community!
(also, it does seem like cabal / cabal-install docs aren't super
discoverable for some people)
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki
Agreed, this would improve usability of binary GHC releases a lot, and I
don't see any downsides.
+1
Roman
* Carter Schonwald carter.schonw...@gmail.com [2014-01-19 19:02:27-0500]
Hey everyone,
I'd like to propose that GHC releases 7.8.1 onwards include a cabal-install
(aka cabal)
