On Friday 22 April 2011 13:57:36, Richard Cobbe wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:27:10PM -0500, Antoine Latter wrote:
1. A side note - using the 'cabal' command line tool is easier for many tasks than 'runhaskell Setup'. In particular, it does a user install by default.
Interesting -- didn't know that was possible. I didn't see that in the Cabal manual; section 4 gives instructions entirely in terms of 'runhaskell Setup'. Am I overlooking something?
On the one hand, the Cabal user's guide is a little out of date. More importantly, there's a difference between the Cabal library and the 'cabal' executable (which you get from the cabal-install package). The Cabal user's guide can't assume that you have the cabal executable, but it can assume you have runhaskell (since without a Haskell implementation, installing Haskell libraries is doomed to fail anyway). However, if the user's guide gets updated, the cabal way will probably (and definitely should) be added.