Hi, Theodore Lief Gannon wrote:
There's only one top-level installation involved (stack), and no conditional branches on the process, so I'd say it's hit "trivial with step-by-step instructions" at least. I just failed to write them. ;)
Ok, good point. Hopefully my experiments can lead to a more complete instruction being put somewhere. In my experience, many programming beginners on Windows cannot use the command line at all, so the whole situation of using stack is new to them. Also, the default support for copy-and-paste for the Windows command line is so bad that beginners will probably try to follow the step-by-step instructions by typing out the commands letter by letter. Therefore, a long list of simple commands but somewhat cryptic commands is still not really "trivial". So I think my question is: Could stack be persuaded somehow to make `stack install gtk3` "just work" by doing all the necessary incantations? I'm aware why `cabal install gtk3` can neither install gtk2hs-buildtools nor install the C library, but maybe stack could make a different tradeoff there. Tillmann