On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:50 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky wrote:

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Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?

Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed:

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Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's autotools stuff or break the GHC build.

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Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now. Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed?

The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we get enough volunteers to do the platform release!)

In the mean time you can just:

$ cabal install time

Okay; no problem. I just read through the Release notes for version 6.10.2 (see http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html), however, and noticed that the removal of the time package hadn't been documented there. Perhaps this information should be included? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^

Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:

Duncan Coutts wrote:

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In the mean time you can just:

$ cabal install time

Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I don't know how to tie the knot in this case.

Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it. There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and HTTP and installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go. If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).

And to make many, many peoples life easier the binaries could have been included in ghc 6.10.2 (but I know there are some philosophical reasons against it). -- Lennart On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

daniel.is.fischer:

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Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:

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Duncan Coutts wrote:

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In the mean time you can just:

$ cabal install time

Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I don't know how to tie the knot in this case.

Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it. There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and HTTP and installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go. If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be findable from the cabal homepage, I believe). _______________________________________________

There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too.

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