Kevin Jardine wrote:
The latest version of the Haskell Platform is Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0.
However, even with the latest version,
cabal install cabal-install
installs cabal in the wrong place (not in extralibs/bin) under Windows at least so it is impossible to upgrade cabal.
Well, there's nothing inherantly "wrong" with where it puts the binary. All the other binaries (the ones that don't come with HP in the first place) get put there too. As far as I can see, the only really "wrong" thing is the search path order.
Having said that perhaps it is for the best as I have had bad experiences upgrading bits of the Haskell Platform.
It is probably safer just to be satisfied with whatever comes with the latest version of the Platform and wait patiently for the next release.
Yeah, perhaps. (But in that case, we might want to turn off the automatic prompting to upgrade it...)