Just FYI it is possible to use OLD "cabal" binaries with the new GHC 7.4. No need to necessarily rebuild cabal-install with GHC 7.4.
I do this all the time. Perhaps it's a bad practice ;-). -Ryan On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Brent Yorgey <byor...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote: > 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 >
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