Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
I have ghc-7.4.0.20111219 made from source and tested it on the DoCon-2.12 application -- thanks to people for their help! It looks all right. This was -- with skipping the module Random Now it remains to add the Random package. I have taken AC-Random Version 0.1 from hackage... Its installation requires Cabal.. And Cabal is difficult to install..
Glad to hear that you are working on getting DoCon working again in a modern Haskell environment. I hope you will be successful. Today, it is very unusual to use GHC by itself. To use Haskell, you install the Haskell Platform. That is GHC together with Cabal and a basic set of libraries. It is very easy to install. http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Almost all Haskell software is expected to be installed using Cabal nowadays. The random package is included with the Haskell Platform, so that problem should be solved too. If you need anything else that is not included in the Haskell Platform, you will most likely want to install it using the command: cabal install <package-name> Once you get DoCon working on a recent Haskell Platform, it would be wonderful if you could make it available on Hackage so that it, too, could be easily installed this way. Since the Haskell Platform is now a separate project from GHC and provides GHC only as one of its many components, you will probably get a better response to your questions on the Haskell Cafe mailing list rather than here. Thanks, Yitz