Re: Making cabal-install SSL capable

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:56 PM Thomas Tuegel wrote:

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I have no intention of playing the "minimal dependency" game (though I don't mind dropping data-default, which accounts for 6 of the dependencies

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: listed

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there). I will point out- as Gershom already did- that in many cases it's likely easier to install a few extra Haskell packages than it is to pull in OpenSSL as a dependency, especially on Windows. (And that's ignoring the fact that http-client-openssl exists.)

Considering users with cabal-install already, that many dependencies is only a small maintenance problem. Bootstrapping will not be a small problem.

Can you explain what the bootstrapping issue is here? If it's what I think you're getting at, I think I have a simple solution to that: https://www.stackage.org/lts/build-plan?package=http-client&_accept=application/x-sh Note that this script generation isn't really highly tested, I put it together a few weeks back as a proof-of-concept to help out someone playing around with LTS Haskell + Nix. Michael