Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-05 Thread Lennart Augustsson
And to make many, many peoples life easier the binaries could have
been included in ghc 6.10.2 (but I know there are some philosophical
reasons against it).

  -- Lennart

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Don Stewart  wrote:
> daniel.is.fischer:
>> Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
>> > Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> > > In the mean time you can just:
>> > >
>> > > $ cabal install time
>> >
>> > Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine
>> > and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal
>> > install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I
>> > don't know how to tie the knot in this case.
>>
>> Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it.
>> There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and 
>> HTTP and
>> installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go.
>> If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be
>> findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).
>> ___
>
> There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too.
>
> --  Don
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Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-05 Thread Don Stewart
daniel.is.fischer:
> Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
> > Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > In the mean time you can just:
> > >
> > > $ cabal install time
> >
> > Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine
> > and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal
> > install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I
> > don't know how to tie the knot in this case.
> 
> Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it.
> There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and 
> HTTP and 
> installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go.
> If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be 
> findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).
> ___

There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too. 

--  Don
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Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > In the mean time you can just:
> >
> > $ cabal install time
>
> Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine
> and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal
> install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I
> don't know how to tie the knot in this case.

Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it.
There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and 
HTTP and 
installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go.
If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be 
findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).
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Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-05 Thread Ashley Yakeley

Duncan Coutts wrote:


In the mean time you can just:

$ cabal install time


Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine 
and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal 
install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I 
don't know how to tie the knot in this case.


--
Ashley Yakeley
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Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-02 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:50 +0100, Duncan Coutts
 wrote:

>On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been
>> >intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?
>
>Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed:
>
>> Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I
>> want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's
>> autotools stuff or break the GHC build.
>
>
>> Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now.
>> Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed?
>
>The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we
>get enough volunteers to do the platform release!)
>
>In the mean time you can just:
>
>$ cabal install time

Okay; no problem.

I just read through the Release notes for version 6.10.2 (see
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html),
however, and noticed that the removal of the time package hadn't been
documented there.  Perhaps this information should be included?

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Re: [Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

2009-04-02 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky 
> wrote:
> 
> >Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been
> >intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?

Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed:

> Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I
> want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's
> autotools stuff or break the GHC build.


> Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now.
> Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed?

The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we
get enough volunteers to do the platform release!)

In the mean time you can just:

$ cabal install time


Duncan

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