On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:50 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi,
Long time problem, now with a new version of GHC and Cabal, and still a problem...
Calling tar then gzip would make this work. This bug stops me from updating my Hackage packages which won't work with GHC 6.8.1.
Well the simple solution is to change the version of tar.exe you've got to one that does support gzip. I'm sure there must be one. Changing Cabal about to call separate tar and gzip might make it work on your box but since no other Windows users have tar or gzip anyway it won't help them. The right solution imho is to move the sdist feature into cabal-install where it can depend on the tar and zlib packages. Then it'd work without requiring tar.exe or gzip.exe on your path. It already does this for unpacking tarballs and works fine on windows. Duncan