indeed, after thinking a wee bit more, yes, it'd be AMAZING if cabal devs made binaries visibly available to the community! (also, it does seem like cabal / cabal-install docs aren't super discoverable for some people) On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki <haskell-oren@ben-kiki.org>wrote:

Hear hear! This would be most welcome.

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

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that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to make the "my first ghc install on a vm" (for experts and new folks both)

go from

#install ghc via whatever mechanism, eg wget, guntar, cd blah ; make install PREFIX=yah #figure out how to install cabal, eg discover wget and then ./bootstrap # cabal install thingsIwannaTry

to # install ghc via some wget and make #cabal install nice things

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:

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point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers

included

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a cabal-install binary

For Windows, we provide a stand-alone cabal.exe on the Cabal site [1]. I guess we could do the same for Linux and OS X.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html

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