On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:35:25PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Ryan Newton wrote: > > I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over > > multiple threads. > > > > Did "cabal install random" actually fail for you under > > ghc-7.4.0.20111219? If so I'd love to know about it as the maintainer > > of the "random" package. (It seems to work for me for > > random-1.0.1.1.) > > "cabal install random" > cannot run in my situation, because I have not cabal usable in the > command line (I only have the Cabal library in the place where the > ghc-7.4.0.20111219 libraries are installed). > My idea is that having installed GHC, I use the GHC packages and, probably, > do not need to install Cabal (why complicate things?, why force a DoCon > user to install extra software?).
It is not really "forcing them to install extra software". Pretty much everyone these days will already have the Haskell Platform, which comes with cabal-install anyway. -Brent _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users