Re: Cabal program in GHC HEAD

2008-09-19 Thread Simon Marlow
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

RE: Cabal program in GHC HEAD

2008-09-19 Thread Mitchell, Neil
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

Re: Cabal program in GHC HEAD

2008-09-19 Thread Thomas Schilling
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