[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal-install is broken

2010-11-23 Thread Christian Maeder
Am 22.11.2010 23:16, schrieb Permjacov Evgeniy: > current cabal-install (0.8.2) cannot be compiled with ghc-7.0.1 set of > boot libraries. It requires cabal 1.8.* wich fails to compile. Does > anyone worked this out ? You can re-use your old cabal binary (if you still have it) that was compiled wi

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal-install prefix

2010-09-22 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2010-09-22T16:11:34+10:00, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > So remove the -- from the front of the line to get it working. Thanks very much. That works. I'd read the header in the config file which said that lines beginning with `--' were comments, but somehow missed uncommenting the line I wa

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Johannes Waldmann < > waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote: > >> Of course I understand "lack of developer time". >> Could any of this be forked out as student projects? >> > > These kind of projects are perfect

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Johannes Waldmann imn.htwk-leipzig.de> writes: > I will teach a course (Sept. - Jan.) noh, it's Oct. - Jan. otherwise it'd be too much of a good thing ... ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listin

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Johannes Waldmann
> Could any of this be forked out as student projects? I will teach a course (Sept. - Jan.) that introduces Haskell (students know Java). Part of the coursework is a programming project. I could assign some cabal tickets - but perhaps that's a bit far-fetched (requires understanding of the ghc in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Johannes Waldmann writes: > Daniel Fischer web.de> writes: > >> The problem is that otherpackages may depend on them too, so when cabal >> automatically reinstalls, those can break. > > how can this be - if the re-installed package is compiled > from the exact original source (as I just learne

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Johan Tibell
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Johannes Waldmann < waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote: > Of course I understand "lack of developer time". > Could any of this be forked out as student projects? > These kind of projects are perfect for Google Summer of Code. We had two Cabal projects this year (

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install profiling libraries

2010-08-20 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Daniel Fischer web.de> writes: > The problem is that otherpackages may depend on them too, so when cabal > automatically reinstalls, those can break. how can this be - if the re-installed package is compiled from the exact original source (as I just learned, cabal stores the sources)? or do y

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 16:02 +, Michael Fan wrote: > I figured it out. It appears to be "Colour" package specific. > The datadir still point to "c:\Program File" even with --user. > I manually edit the dist/setup-config and get Colour installed. > After that, other packages seem working fine. >

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install on Windows

2009-11-09 Thread Michael Fan
I figured it out. It appears to be "Colour" package specific. The datadir still point to "c:\Program File" even with --user. I manually edit the dist/setup-config and get Colour installed. After that, other packages seem working fine. Jian Fan wrote: > Does cabal install --user or --prefix work o

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal install on Windows 7

2009-09-10 Thread Felix Martini
> Is there any %LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows XP? If not, what is the > difference between %LOCALAPPDATA% and %APPDATA% in Windows Vista/7? XP does not define the %LOCALAPPDATA% environment variable, but it is equivalent to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data. Data in local application data

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install 0.6.2 does not bootstrap with ghc-6.10.1 debian distribution

2009-03-08 Thread Tomáš Janoušek
Hello, On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 05:51:56PM -0800, Ahn, Ki Yung wrote: > I sometimes clean up .ghc and .cabal in my home directory to start from > scratch because of dependency loopholes (cabal-install does not have > remove option yet, so it's hard to fix when such loophole happens). You may use g

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install 0.6.2 does not bootstrap with ghc-6.10.1 debian distribution

2009-03-07 Thread Ahn, Ki Yung
Ahn, Ki Yung 쓴 글: > Dear Haskellers and especially who are working on cabal-install > and debian packaging, > > I sometimes clean up .ghc and .cabal in my home directory to start from > scratch because of dependency loopholes (cabal-install does not have > remove option yet, so it's hard to fix wh

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-24 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:16 +0100, Thomas Hartman wrote: > I have run into another issue with cabal packaging, which seems > related to the issues discussed above. (see attached tar file for > complete example of failure scenario) > > If I have a cabal package that depends on two other packages >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-16 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
Don Stewart wrote: > [...] > > Note that packages that depend on the 'experimental' versions of things > (in particular Haxml 1.19.* can't be packaged for Arch either, as we can > only install one version of the haskell-haxml package). In this case we definetely need haxml-1.19. IIRC we even comm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Don Stewart
deduktionstheorem: > Thomas Hartman wrote: > > When I specify > > > > Build-Depends: base, parsec, HaXml >= 1.19.4 > > > > in xml-parsec.cabal > > > > it does install correctly. > > I just fixed xml-parsec.cabal and uploaded it on hackage: > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/p

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 13:31 +0100, Thomas Hartman wrote: > This is all news to me, and un-googleable to boot: > > http://www.google.pl/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cabal+referred-versions&spell=1 > > (no results) It finds something for me (with the right spelling of prefe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
Thomas Hartman wrote: > When I specify > > Build-Depends: base, parsec, HaXml >= 1.19.4 > > in xml-parsec.cabal > > it does install correctly. I just fixed xml-parsec.cabal and uploaded it on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xml-parsec-1.0.3 > > [...] > /

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Thomas Hartman
This is all news to me, and un-googleable to boot: http://www.google.pl/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=cabal+referred-versions&spell=1 (no results) So yes, I think this referred-versions machinery should at least be made more transparent for situations when it does the wron

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 12:39 +0100, Thomas Hartman wrote: > When I specify > > Build-Depends: base, parsec, HaXml >= 1.19.4 > > in xml-parsec.cabal > > it does install correctly. Yes, saying what version it needs is a good thing. It's all guesses otherwise. > I guess what happens is that cabal

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install HaXml installs wrong version unless I specify the version number

2008-11-15 Thread Thomas Hartman
When I specify Build-Depends: base, parsec, HaXml >= 1.19.4 in xml-parsec.cabal it does install correctly. I guess what happens is that cabal install takes the earliest version of a package registered to try to build. I guess that's a reasonable default. What seems unreasonable to me is that

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal install fail for happs-hsp-template

2008-06-02 Thread Thomas Hartman
I just noticed this is also reported as a 6.8 build failure on hackage itself. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/happs-hsp-template 2008/6/2 Thomas Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can cabal install be made to work for this package? > * > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>sudo cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install

2007-11-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:00 +0100, Thomas Schilling wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .../software/haskell > cd cabal > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: .../haskell/cabal > runhaskell Setup.lhs configure > > > > Distribution/Simple/NHC.hs:77:1: lexical err

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install

2007-11-28 Thread Thomas Schilling
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:46 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote: > Don Stewart wrote: > > ben.franksen: > >> cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or > >> directory) > > > > This one is due to having an out of date cabal. Upgrade to darcs cabal, > > then rebuild cabal-install, and t

[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal-install

2007-11-28 Thread Ben Franksen
Don Stewart wrote: > ben.franksen: >> cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or >> directory) > > This one is due to having an out of date cabal. Upgrade to darcs cabal, > then rebuild cabal-install, and things should go fine. Ok. So the package is broken in that it doesn'