Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-03 Thread Danny B
On 09/03/2012 02:15 PM, Richard Wallace wrote: I like the approach so far. But hellno itself seems to have several dependencies itself. So installing with cabal pulls these in as fixed libraries (text, mtl, transformers, and parsec). Any plans to make these not have to be fixed? Or is there

[Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Danny B
Like many of us, I've suffered from cabal dependency hell and sought relief. I wasn't exactly happy with sandboxes - because using per-project ones meant package duplication and shared sandboxes suffer from the same issues as the GHC package database itself, i.e. reinstalls can break other

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Niklas Hambüchen
Hell yeah! Looks like a nice approach. On Sun 02 Sep 2012 19:25:08 BST, Danny B wrote: Like many of us, I've suffered from cabal dependency hell and sought relief. I wasn't exactly happy with sandboxes - because using per-project ones meant package duplication and shared sandboxes suffer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
awesome! I look forward to playing with this and hopefully saying hell yeah when i'm done :) -Carter On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Niklas Hambüchen m...@nh2.me wrote: Hell yeah! Looks like a nice approach. On Sun 02 Sep 2012 19:25:08 BST, Danny B wrote: Like many of us, I've suffered

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Richard Wallace
I like the approach so far. But hellno itself seems to have several dependencies itself. So installing with cabal pulls these in as fixed libraries (text, mtl, transformers, and parsec). Any plans to make these not have to be fixed? Or is there a trick I'm missing? On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:25

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
perhaps the *right* solution is to view that as a bootstrap build, and then have hellno build itself? :) That said, its also an executable rather than library, so its not quite the same problem. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Richard Wallace rwall...@thewallacepack.net wrote: I like the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hellno - a somewhat different approach to tackling cabal hell

2012-09-02 Thread Chris Wong
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Richard Wallace rwall...@thewallacepack.net wrote: I like the approach so far. But hellno itself seems to have several dependencies itself. So installing with cabal pulls these in as fixed libraries (text, mtl, transformers, and parsec). Any plans to make