duncan.coutts:
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 10:57 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
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.
It will of course be bundled with the first release of the Haskell Platform. In the mean time you can get a pre-compiled binary here:
http://haskell.org/~duncan/cabal/cabal.exe
(Although most actual packages typically have one, maybe two dependencies that aren't already installed, if that.)
My favourite example at the moment is the new hackage server which has 24 dependencies and installs nicely using cabal install.
I'm a fan of gitit, and its 46 dependencies, that install via cabal-install. Pretty awesome. -- Don