12 Oct
2015
12 Oct
'15
7:10 a.m.
the whole Haskell community considers cabal-install and the Platform ...
is this a fact? the whole community? such a bad reputation? platform did not work for me but maybe it was because I tried it at quite an early stage and made a few mistakes. Now I build ghc from source so do not really need the platform. The only thing in the installation process which I find cumbersome is the chicken and egg situation: you need ghc to build ghc. If it were possible to build bootstrap ghc entirely from source with minimum deps, this would be good. I used cabal & cabal-install without problems so far.