Mitchell, Neil wrote:
That would be a shame. Haskell Platform is meant to be the batteries -
the easy way to get a standard bundle of extra libraries. Cabal-install
is the essential tool for installing anything, a key part of the
compiler infrastructure. Either you'll have to tell everyone to ins
That would be a shame. Haskell Platform is meant to be the batteries -
the easy way to get a standard bundle of extra libraries. Cabal-install
is the essential tool for installing anything, a key part of the
compiler infrastructure. Either you'll have to tell everyone to install
two things, bundle
IIUC, cabal-install, its dependencies, and the old extra-libs will be
part of the first release of the Haskell Platform, which will come out
soon (maybe 1 month) after GHC is released.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Mitchell, Neil
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
>
> I have previously be
Hi Duncan,
I have previously been very enthusiastic about advocating the inclusion
of the Cabal program in GHC 6.10.1 - I still consider it essential for
Windows users. However, GHC HEAD doesn't currently put it in the
bindist, which is what I think will end up shipping to users. Given that
the re
