Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-07-04 Thread Andrew Coppin
Antoine Latter wrote: Personally, I've never used "runhaskell Setup sdist" and I've only ever used "cabal sdist". But I'm not sure where I learned that. I think cabal-install is a pretty standard util for people to have, and it ships with the Haskell platform now. So the big hurdle is documentat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: This is an exercise in pure frustration! Sometimes it seems as if > *everything* is broken on Windows. > In my opinion you're right, Windows, and things built on it, tend to be very broken. Maybe that's why so many of the Haskell devs aren'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Ross Mellgren wrote: I presume that many of the developers do not have windows machines (presumably because windows sucks). Maybe you could help them by trying to track down where the error in the code is, and even better yet submitting a patch? This is all free by the virtue of people giving

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Ross Mellgren
I presume that many of the developers do not have windows machines (presumably because windows sucks). Maybe you could help them by trying to track down where the error in the code is, and even better yet submitting a patch? This is all free by the virtue of people giving what time they can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Jason Dagit wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin mailto:andrewcop...@btinternet.com>> wrote: Rather less fortunately, it still doesn't actually fix my problem: E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal configure Resolving dependencies... Configuring AOC-HalfInteger-

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: > > > 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. > You may want to check

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
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 Goog

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Antoine Latter wrote: Personally, I've never used "runhaskell Setup sdist" and I've only ever used "cabal sdist". But I'm not sure where I learned that. I think cabal-install is a pretty standard util for people to have, and it ships with the Haskell platform now. So the big hurdle is documentat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Antoine Latter
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: > > This was not at all clear to me from reading the ticker. > > OK, so I need to find another seperate tool in order to do this. I guess not > every single Haskell user tries to release stuff to Hackage, while > presumably most users want to in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Derek Elkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Ah. Apparently it's "fixed": http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/40 Except that it isn't fixed. Yay for me.. If one actually reads the dis

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-28 Thread Derek Elkins
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Antoine Latter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew > Coppin wrote: >> Andrew Coppin wrote: >>> >>> Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and >>> then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-28 Thread Antoine Latter
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Andrew Coppin wrote: >> >> Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and >> then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply >> be too easy. ;-) >> >> E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>runhaskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
Andrew Coppin wrote: Alrighty then, so how I just do Setup configure, and now Setup sdist, and then I can upload the result to Ha-- oh, don't be silly. That would simply be too easy. ;-) E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>runhaskell Setup sdist Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... Preproces

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal fun [Half-integer]

2009-06-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
Max Rabkin wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Which versions of base have you tested it with? :-) Whichever one GHC 6.10.3 ships with... "ghc-pkg list base" will tell you which version you have installed. Which tells me I have base-3.0.3.1 *and*