Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I finally installed cabal-install in windows.. I had a copy of sh.exe for windows time ago so I could use bootstrap. The only additional thing needed is wget(http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/). finally I moved the resulting cabal.exe to ghc/bin 2009/1/19 Duncan Coutts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-19 Thread Alberto G. Corona
C:\Documents and Settings\Administratorcabal install plugins Resolving dependencies... cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires Cabal ==1.6.0.1 however Cabal-1.6.0.1 was excluded because plugins-1.3.1 requires Cabal ==1.4.* 2009/1/19 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com I finally

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
playing with some package... -- From: Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:35 PM To: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall Am

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:22 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it has,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Robinson
2009/1/18 Sebastian Sylvan sebastian.syl...@gmail.com: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Newer versions contain a bootstrap.sh script that works just fine for me. Cheers, Peter ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
Doesn't work on windows. -- From: Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 4:27 PM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:22 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it has, which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread David Leimbach
-- From: Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:35 PM To: Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 23:20 schrieb Alberto G. Corona: Hi guys

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:48 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Doesn't work on windows. http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/cabal.exe It's not the latest version but you can use it to self-update. I'll post a more recent build after the next release. I might also put it in a slightly more discoverable

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 10:27 -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:22 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:58 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:24 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: In my experience, it usually fails because of missing dependencies like zlib-dev on my own system, but those are easy to fix, at which point I can rerun the bootstrap script. Patches accepted. Without digressing too much, I don't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Don Stewart
duncan.coutts: On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 17:58 +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan: Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
...@nokrev.com; haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 16:48 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: Doesn't work on windows. http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/cabal.exe It's not the latest version but you can use it to self-update. I'll post a more recent

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:28 -0600, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:24 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: In my experience, it usually fails because of missing dependencies like zlib-dev on my own system, but those are easy to fix, at which point I can rerun the bootstrap script.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:35 +, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: On a similar note, would it not be nice if cabal install understood about platforms and could tell you straight away that a package won't install under e.g. windows, rather then spending ages trying and then failing because a

[Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hi guys: I don´t know how difficult really is, but it seens that it could be done because all the necessary elements are there (except perhaps the mapping package name-hackage url): Why hasn´t been done yet Is unknown to me. It would be very useful and a big save of time to have a cabal commad

Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

2009-01-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 23:20 schrieb Alberto G. Corona: Hi guys: I don´t know how difficult really is, but it seens that it could be done because all the necessary elements are there (except perhaps the mapping package name-hackage url): Why hasn´t been done yet Is unknown to me. It