On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Neil Mitchell
On Windows, the reason I used to use the Platform was that it came with an installed network library, and installing the network library on Windows is a real pain (and often fails). Unfortunately it was incredibly brittle, a single attempt at upgrading network from some newer package usually trashed my Haskell install and required a wipe and restart.
Slightly OT: If you ever want to prevent cabal from trying to install a different version of a package (since you know it won't work, or will break things) you can put something like this in your cabal config: constraint: network installed I do this for template-haskell, since it's not possible to reinstall but cabal would occasionally try it. I can imagine it would work well to prevent the scenario you describe with network. Erik