[Haskell-cafe] writing a good Setup.hs is *hard* (was: broken on install encoding 0.6.6)

2011-08-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Gang wrote: > > sorry to bother > Not in the least! I was trying to figure out what problem you were encountering, and I learned a lot. I never did recreate your problem, but in the process I ran into a whole host of other annoyances and strange situations relat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] writing a good Setup.hs is *hard* (was: broken on install encoding 0.6.6)

2011-08-17 Thread Antoine Latter
Ccing cabal-dev. On Aug 17, 2011 9:12 AM, "Rogan Creswick" wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Gang wrote: > > > > sorry to bother > > > > Not in the least! > > I was trying to figure out what problem you were encountering, and I > learned a lot. I never did recreate your problem, but i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] writing a good Setup.hs is *hard* (was: broken on install encoding 0.6.6)

2011-08-17 Thread Antoine Latter
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Rogan Creswick wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Gang wrote: >> >> sorry to bother >> > > Not in the least! > > I was trying to figure out what problem you were encountering, and I > learned a lot.  I never did recreate your problem, but in the process > I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] writing a good Setup.hs is *hard* (was: broken on install encoding 0.6.6)

2011-08-18 Thread malcolm.wallace
On 17 Aug, 2011,at 03:11 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote:encoding-0.6.6 uses it's own source during the build process! It actually has to be partially compiled before the build tool can build encoding (!). I'm *amazed* that this actually works at all (impressed, too),  This is by design.  It is intended