As a side note, I have stopped having cabal issues since I started using
hsenv. It sandboxes packages for you. So if you have install problems you
just need to delete a local .hsenv directory instead of reinstalling
everything.
On Jun 12, 2013 11:15 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz
On 06/13/2013 02:13 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
My original problem was that I wanted to load a particular set of
packages using 'cabal install'. It didn't work (cabal install issues)
and while the maintainer reacted promptly and helpfully, cabal
kept on trying to install the wrong version.
My original problem was that I wanted to load a particular set of
packages using 'cabal install'. It didn't work (cabal install issues)
and while the maintainer reacted promptly and helpfully, cabal
kept on trying to install the wrong version.
Part of the problem was that blasting away ~/.cabal
Today I cleared out everything, using uninstall-hs and
rm -rf ~/.cabal ~/Library/Haskell
I downloaded Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg
and installed it.
I was unsuccessful in installing the packages I wanted
using cabal install, which suggested running ghc-pkg check.
So I cleared out
* Richard A. O'Keefe o...@cs.otago.ac.nz [2013-06-13 17:37:57+1200]
Today I cleared out everything, using uninstall-hs and
rm -rf ~/.cabal ~/Library/Haskell
I downloaded Haskell Platform 2013.2.0.0 64bit.pkg
and installed it.
I was unsuccessful in installing the packages I wanted
using