Hello Mikhail,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:42:17 AM, you wrote:
> The beta version of the Windows installer is ready and can be
> downloaded from
wow!
> * Installed files are not tracked precisely (we use the Windows
> analogue of rm -rf, which is a bit unsafe).
are you use NSIS? i solved t
Hello Mikhail,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 1:42:17 AM, you wrote:
> The beta version of the Windows installer is ready and can be
> downloaded from
so:
1) afair, you use nsis? installer size too large, adding this line to
.nsi should make it twice smaller:
SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
2) i propo
Hello Ian,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:12:25 PM, you wrote:
> I don't think existing HP libraries should be exempt from new
> requirements in future HP releases. Either they should be fixed to meet
> the requirements, or they are not being maintained adequately and should
> be removed from the H
Hello Duncan,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 3:10:18 PM, you wrote:
> There is no problem with it being run from a directory with spaces. The
> only problem is building it with a --prefix set to a dir with spaces, or
> if the source tarball is in a dir with spaces. The existing installers
> for ghc i
Hello Mikhail,
Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 5:00:09 PM, you wrote:
>> btw, HP installer creates "Start menu/Haskell Platform/6.10.2" menu. may
>> be it should be "Start menu/Haskell Platform/2009.0.0"?
> The default value is "GHC/6.10.2" - I assume that you
> changed "GHC" to "Haskell Platform" ma
Hello Duncan,
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 1:58:33 PM, you wrote:
> Releases:
> * 2009.2.0, Monday 4th May
> * 2009.2.1, Monday 1st June (4 weeks after .0)
> * 2009.2.2, Monday 13th July (6 weeks after .1)
are you sure that 1) releasers will work due the Summer,
2) users are
Hello Duncan,
Monday, May 4, 2009, 11:01:04 PM, you wrote:
>> What's new in 2009.2.0-rc1:
>> * Installer size was cut down by 50% by turning on 7z
>> compression (thanks to Bulat Ziganshin for the heads-up).
> BTW, it looked like the size was pretty much u
Hello Haskell,
i just installed Windows Haskell Platform RC. it have created
"Start Menu\Haskell Platform\GHC 6.10.2" item, that forced me to think
deeper about HP universe
yes, we decided that HP will include up-to-date GHC and some set of
libraries. but how different HP versions will coexist?
Hello Mikhail,
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 7:55:41 AM, you wrote:
>> i just installed Windows Haskell Platform RC. it have created
>> "Start Menu\Haskell Platform\GHC 6.10.2" item, that forced me to think
>> deeper about HP universe
> Does it still use "Start Menu\Haskell Platform" ? I thought that
>
Hello Mikhail,
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 11:20:48 AM, you wrote:
>> and rechecked it's behavior. Vista x64 Ultimate SP1, i've used "just
>> extraction" installation - may it's source of problem?
> "Just extraction" shouldn't create any shortcuts at all - you probably
> have them left over from the p
Hello Mikhail,
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:19:47 PM, you wrote:
>>> "Just extraction" shouldn't create any shortcuts at all - you probably
>>> have them left over from the previous installation.
> Hmm, I should probably install Vista and check this myself.
it works correctly on XP?
>> imagine th
Hello Mikhail,
just suggest you to look into other "batteries included" installations.
the one for Lua:
http://luaforwindows.googlecode.com/files/LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-27.exe
we may find useful ideas there
--
Best regards,
Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com
Hello Duncan,
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 2:07:36 PM, you wrote:
>> ghc-6.10.3 ships with time-1.1.3, but we list time-1.1.2.4 in
>> haskell-platform.cabal. Shouldn't this library be upgraded?
> Perhaps we should replace it with a released version. I don't see how we
> can preserve the API otherwise.
Hello Simon,
Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 10:31:45 PM, you wrote:
> Gregory Collins wrote:
>> I agree, it'd be great to get some feedback on that (tumbleweeds so
>> far..) so I can prepare a final package.
> There's a preview ? I missed that, and so do my google searches. I'll try it
> if you post
Hello Don,
Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 1:35:37 AM, you wrote:
fist, winhugs was always the great learning and rapid development
environment. when i started second version of my program from scratch,
first several monthes i don't added anything incompatible with hugs and
used it to quickly polish th
Hello Duncan,
Thursday, August 6, 2009, 4:11:29 PM, you wrote:
> People, we're clearly moving too slowly here! The discussions are
i propose to start with voting on HP license (meaning license of all
its libs): BSD, LGPL with static linking exception, LGPL, GPL, other.
plus how many people think
Hello Gregory,
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:08:30 PM, you wrote:
>> i think it's the cafe, since HP is our all-in-one haskell installer
>> with very broad audience that may have questions of any kind. other
>> lists should be listed as places for very specific questions
> I for one would rather
Friday, July 16, 2010, 3:34:51 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> So I suggest we leave the GUI library as an add-on, but explain clearly
> how people can get up and running with *some* GUI library quickly, with
> pointers to instructions for their platform.
just now i'm in process of installing ghc 6.12.
Hello Axel,
Friday, July 16, 2010, 6:10:08 PM, you wrote:
>> "cabal install gtk" actually failed for me since it tried to search
>> for
>> gtk2hs-buildtools files near to directory where i have left cabal.exe,
>> so i have added the "0." step
> The build tools should be found when they are on th
Hello Don,
Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 12:30:29 AM, you wrote:
> * Apart from then Haskell Platform, software installation is a pain.
> Cabal install is bearable, if painful, for developers, but it is
> unacceptable for end users.
btw, once i've proposed to publish ${library}.hackage f
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