Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-05 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 11:41:33 PM UTC+2, Yuri de Wit wrote: Thanks for all the hard work! If you see this in OSX (#1009) while installing cabal 1.18: *Warning: could not create a symlink in /Users/lemao/Library/Haskell/bin for* *cabal because the file exists there already but is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-05 Thread Yuri de Wit
It is easy enough to recreate the link manually or as easy to run cabal install again, but that is not the point here. The point is that it will bite the next dozen of unsuspecting users since, at first, they have no idea of what is going on. In any case, apologies for sending this in this thread

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-05 Thread Rogan Creswick
I ran into another oddity due to old build artifacts today -- it was easy to fix, but very confusing; cabal repl was exiting with unrecognised command: repl. tl/dr; if you see this, delete the old 'dist' dir and re-run 'cabal configure'. Here's a snippit of my shell session to explain in more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-05 Thread Johan Tibell
I pasted your report into the bug tracker: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1478 I don't know if you're on GitHub or not so I could link the report to your user. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into another oddity due to old build artifacts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-05 Thread Johan Tibell
Hideyuki Tanaka was missing from the list of contributors (his patch was applied through me). His contribution made 'cabal update' faster! On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors I'm proud to

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-04 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi all, On behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors I'm proud to announce the Cabal (and cabal-install) 1.18.0 release. To install run cabal update cabal install Cabal-1.18.0 cabal-install-1.18.0 With 854 commits since the last release there are two many improvements and bug fixes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-04 Thread Darren Grant
Thank you all for the hard work. The new features are already of great help to me! Cheers, Darren On 2013-09-04 2:13 PM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On behalf of the cabal maintainers and contributors I'm proud to announce the Cabal (and cabal-install) 1.18.0 release.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Cabal v1.18.0 released

2013-09-04 Thread Yuri de Wit
Thanks for all the hard work! If you see this in OSX (#1009) while installing cabal 1.18: *Warning: could not create a symlink in /Users/lemao/Library/Haskell/bin for * *cabal because the file exists there already but is not managed by cabal. You* *can create a symlink for this executable