On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Ryan Newton wrote:
I haven't entirely followed this and I see that it's been split over multiple threads.
Did "cabal install random" actually fail for you under ghc-7.4.0.20111219? If so I'd love to know about it as the maintainer of the "random" package. (It seems to work for me for random-1.0.1.1.)
"cabal install random" cannot run in my situation, because I have not cabal usable in the command line (I only have the Cabal library in the place where the ghc-7.4.0.20111219 libraries are installed). My idea is that having installed GHC, I use the GHC packages and, probably, do not need to install Cabal (why complicate things?, why force a DoCon user to install extra software?).
That said, I'm sure AC-random is a fine alternative, and there are many other packages on Hackage as well, including cryptographic strength ones (crypto-api, intel-aes, etc).
I tried AC-Random, and see that it suggests just different classes, with different operations. So that all the Random instances in my application must be re-programmed. So is the consequence of being out of Standard, and out of GHC ! ------ Sergei mechvel@botik.ru