Re: patch applied (cabal-install): Rewrite the bootstrap.sh script

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:28 +0100, Thorkil Naur wrote:

Hello,

On Thursday 15 January 2009 12:25, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Thu Jan 15 02:22:10 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts * Rewrite the bootstrap.sh script Hopefully more useful and more robust.

Yes, hopefully. A while back, I ran bootstrap.sh under Windows (with MSYS as I recall) and it sort of failed, I presume that the details are not interesting. I (think I) know, now, that you are not supposed to do that, that under Windows, you must install the dependencies individually.

Getting to the point here: I don't see a check on the environment anywhere, I am not sure how to do that, but you probably know. In any case, adding a check that produces an error message if you try to run this script under (MSYS or Cygwin) under Windows would seem valuable. Had such a check been in place at the time a while back that I refer to, I would have been spared some agony.

Patches to make the script work on windows or to detect it and fail gracefully would be gratefully accepted. Indeed I would like to invite people to test the new script on various platforms and send in any patches. I've only tested on Linux and Solaris so far. Duncan