Just FYI it is possible to use OLD "cabal" binaries with the new GHC 7.4.
No need to necessarily rebuild cabal-install with GHC 7.4.
I do this all the time. Perhaps it's a bad practice ;-).
-Ryan
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Brent Yorgey
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,
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 04:35:25PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: probably,
do not need to install Cabal (why complicate things?, why force a DoCon user to install extra software?).
It is not really "forcing them to install extra software". Pretty much everyone these days will already have the Haskell Platform, which comes with cabal-install anyway.
-Brent
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