Hi Xavier, I'm the author of both yaml and data-object-yaml. I recommend you stick with data-object-yaml: yaml is much more low level. I recently wrote a blog post about data-object-yaml which you will probably find useful: http://docs.yesodweb.com/blog/data-object-yaml/ . As for your installation problem: cabal installs libraries by default in the user folder, whereas Setup.hs checks the global folder by default. I recommend just using "cabal configure" and skipping the Setup.hs file. Good luck! Michael On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Xavier Shay wrote:

Hello,

I want to use YAML in my app

I have run: cabal install yaml

I have added it to my build-depends line in my .cabal file: Build-Depends:       base,time,yaml

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure Configuring xtdo-0.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: yaml -any

Oh no! I tried just importing Text.Libyaml in both my app and GHCi but neither error gave any clues. I also found references to HsSyck, data-object-yaml and YAML::Tiny libraries, but not sure what I should be using.

Right now I'm feeling totally lost, not being able to find examples of code using yaml, nor documentation for how I would use the libraries to play around with it. Also not comfortable I understand the interaction between cabal, runhaskell, ghc, and my build file.

Any pointers? References to documentation I should have read also appreciated.

Cheers, Xavier

(I don't know how relevant it is, but here is my minimal project I am trying to add it to: https://github.com/xaviershay/xtdo-hs)

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