On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Sebastian Sylvan < sebastian.syl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install > easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an > evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it > has, which is far too much work when I just wanted to spend ten minutes > playing with some package... You typically need HTTP and zlib. Perhaps cabal-install could have it's own minimal implementations to be standalone? However I don't find needing to cabal build and install 2 packages to be so difficult. And once you have cabal-install, you've got it ;-) It should be able to update itself. Maybe adding cabal-install to the ghc packaging solves all the problems, then they just need zlib and http in the main distribution. Dave > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Daniel Fischer" <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de> > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:35 PM > To: "Alberto G. Corona " <agocor...@gmail.com>; <haskell-cafe@haskell.org> > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall > > > Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 23:20 schrieb Alberto G. Corona: >> >>> Hi guys: >>> >>> I don´t know how difficult really is, but it seens that it could be done >>> because all the necessary elements are there (except perhaps the mapping >>> package name-hackage url): Why hasn´t been done yet Is unknown to me. >>> It would be very useful and a big save of time to have a cabal commad >>> >>> "chech-dependencies-and-install-them-by-downloading-them-from-hackage-then- >>> configure-build-and-install-this-package?. The unix installers do is t >>> from >>> binaries and are obsolete, so I have to do it manually with cabal >>> everytime >>> when i download a new compiler version from haskell.org. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Alberto. >>> >> >> Use cabal-install: >> >> cabal update && cabal install foo >> >> checks for dependencies, downloads and builds them automatically (if >> possible). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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