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 cresw...@gmail.com 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

[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 yugang...@gmail.com 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

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 cresw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Gang yugang...@gmail.com 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

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 cresw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Gang yugang...@gmail.com 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