On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Andrew Coppin wrote: Indeed. I've heard a few people claim that cabal-install is the best thing
since sliced bread, but I've never touched it. I don't even know where to
get it. (Presumably this will become fairly obvious once I go look for
it...) Fortunately, it turns out that a trivial Google search is all that is
required to locate cabal-install. (Assuming you already know it exists.)
Unfortunately I got as far as actually downloading the sources from Hackage
before discovering that on Windows you actually need to download the
pre-build binary. (Couldn't you mention this on the Hackage download page?) Also fortunately, it appears to be pretty trivial to operate cabal-install.
I didn't bother reading any instructions, just cabal --help. (Not sure why
it needs to download the package list from Hackage - or where it puts it.
But I'm sure there's a good reason.) Rather less fortunately, it still doesn't actually fix my problem: E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal configure
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring AOC-HalfInteger-1.0... E:\Haskell\AOC-HalfInteger>cabal sdist
Building source dist for AOC-HalfInteger-1.0...
Preprocessing library AOC-HalfInteger-1.0...
Source tarball created: dist\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0.tar.gz
cabal: dist\src\sdist.1288\AOC-HalfInteger-1.0\Data\HalfInteger.hs:
removeFile: permission denied (Permission denied) I have no idea what the hell it's upset about now... I've now been trying
to create this damned tarball since 5PM yesterday, and I still haven't
managed it. At this point I'm losing the will to continue with this crazy
project. Clearly this is way too much effort to expend just to upload 50
lines of code. I can't say for certain, but just reading the output it looks like it
created a tarball in a temporary folder (that worked) and then when it tried
to clean it up it failed. Sounds like a bug report is in order.
Jason