On 17 March 2012 09:02, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle...@mega-nerd.com> wrote: > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > >> One trivial solution is to assume ~/.cabal/bin is on the PATH and to >> ignore system-wide packages, which I think is even *more* sub-optimal >> (why install a new version of alex when it's already available?). > > The tool should only install alex in ~/.cabal/bin if alex is not already > available.
So how does it know whether the *correct version* is available? Add --version parsers for every single possible build-tool to cabal-install? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
