daniel.is.fischer:
Am Sonntag, 30. November 2008 20:46 schrieb Don Stewart:
andrewcoppin:
Thomas Schilling wrote:
Cabal-the-install-tool (package "cabal-install") is actually a different program that sits on top of Cabal-the-library, and it is in fact what really provides the real advantages. Together with Hackage this is what provides the killer feature of "cabal install foo", however it relies on the building features and meta-data of Cabal.
As I understand it, that's also a seperate download. (Whereas the cabal library comes with GHC.)
One day, if I feel hard-core enough, I might try this tool. (Assuming it works on Windows...) It sounds potentially useful. (Although most actual packages typically have one, maybe two dependencies that aren't already installed, if that.)
*if* .. *might* .. *assuming* .. *potentially* .. *maybe* .. *if*..
You could have built it by now!
Source:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal-install/0.6.0/cabal-insta ll-0.6.0.tar.gz
Dependencies that aren't in core:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/3001.1.5/HTTP-3001.1.5.tar .gz http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zlib/0.5.0.0/zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.g z
Note the last one assumes you have zlib the C library installed. This should be straight forward to obtain.
Not even necessary, it comes with its own for windows: if !os(windows) -- Normally we use the the standard system zlib: extra-libraries: z else -- However for the benefit of users of Windows (which does not have zlib -- by default) we bundle a complete copy of the C sources of zlib-1.2.3 c-sources: cbits/adler32.c cbits/compress.c cbits/crc32.c cbits/deflate.c cbits/gzio.c cbits/infback.c cbits/inffast.c cbits/inflate.c cbits/inftrees.c cbits/trees.c cbits/uncompr.c cbits/zutil.c
Even easier. Now there's no excuse for the ifs and buts and maybes. -- Don