On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Windows, the reason I used to use the Platform was that it came > with an installed network library, and installing the network library > on Windows is a real pain (and often fails). Unfortunately it was > incredibly brittle, a single attempt at upgrading network from some > newer package usually trashed my Haskell install and required a wipe > and restart.
Slightly OT: If you ever want to prevent cabal from trying to install a different version of a package (since you know it won't work, or will break things) you can put something like this in your cabal config: constraint: network installed I do this for template-haskell, since it's not possible to reinstall but cabal would occasionally try it. I can imagine it would work well to prevent the scenario you describe with network. Erik _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
