On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com > wrote:
> Andrew Coppin wrote: > >> Indeed. I've heard a few people claim that cabal-install is the best thing >> since sliced bread, but I've never touched it. I don't even know where to >> get it. (Presumably this will become fairly obvious once I go look for >> it...) >> > > Fortunately, it turns out that a trivial Google search is all that is > required to locate cabal-install. (Assuming you already know it exists.) > Unfortunately I got as far as actually downloading the sources from Hackage > before discovering that on Windows you actually need to download the > pre-build binary. (Couldn't you mention this on the Hackage download page?) > > Also fortunately, it appears to be pretty trivial to operate cabal-install. > I didn't bother reading any instructions, just cabal --help. (Not sure why > it needs to download the package list from Hackage - or where it puts it. > But I'm sure there's a good reason.) > > Rather less fortunately, it still doesn't actually fix my problem: > > E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal configure > Resolving dependencies... > Configuring AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... > > E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal sdist > Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... > Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... > Source tarball created: dist\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0.tar.gz > cabal: dist\src\sdist.1288\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0\Data\HalfInteger.hs: > removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied) > > I have no idea what the hell it's upset about now... I've now been trying > to create this damned tarball since 5PM yesterday, and I still haven't > managed it. At this point I'm losing the will to continue with this crazy > project. Clearly this is way too much effort to expend just to upload 50 > lines of code. I can't say for certain, but just reading the output it looks like it created a tarball in a temporary folder (that worked) and then when it tried to clean it up it failed. Sounds like a bug report is in order. Jason
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