On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 23:32 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > > > First, we intend to release the next version of GHC from the current > > stable branch, 6.8.3, around the end of May 2008. This will probably be > > the last release from this branch. > > Is it possible to include the cabal-install tool with this release, in > the Windows installer? > > The cabal-install tool provides very useful functionality, and is > currently rather tricky to install. If cabal-install was already > installed, then installing cabal-install would be trivial (note how > cabal-install causes a mental black hole).
Note that cabal-install requires the yet-unreleased Cabal-1.4.x and that GHC-6.8.3 will come with a release from the Cabal-1.2.x branch to preserve API compatibility with the earlier GHC-6.8.x releases. You could still have a cabal-install binary in the Windows installer and not include the Cabal-1.4.x library that you built it against. Alternatively it'd be possible to include Cabal-1.4.x too and have it not exposed by default. That'd enable cabal-install to use it for any packages that use a custom Setup.hs without it being picked up by default by ghc --make or ghci. cabal-install will become easier to install anyway once we make an official release of it and Cabal-1.4. If that's still too tricky for people we could make a single tarball that bundles Cabal-1.4, zlib, HTTP and cabal-install but installs only the cabal-install binary. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
