I feel your pain...

Confession: I abandoned Haskell two years ago because of frustration with cabal and hackage. I decided to get back to the language today, and to start with Haskell School of Expression. I immediately run into the problem that the first thing I try to install with cabal does not work.

It is the same reason I have stopped using it. It's a real shame. Those with better education and understanding than mine should be concerned that the uptake of the language is stunted by its package manager.

I love Haskell. I have taught myself (the beginnings at least) of group theory just to better comprehend the mindset of monads. For that alone I am glad I learned Haskell as it has rekindled my interest in maths!

Thanks for any help. Please tell me things are not just as bad now as they were when I left ;-)

This mail seems to indicate to me that "cabal hell" is here for some time to come...