On 12/11/06, Kirsten Chevalier
Don't apologize; you're not being dumb. But, you have to realize that if you're using Haskell at all, you *are* the Haskell community.
OK, thanks for the gentle push. After a bit of digging, I decided that the takusen link looked like a darcs repository, and I downloaded darcs and got takusen. I installed GHC 6.6 in a spare VM (no PC round I can install stuff on just now, I'll do this properly later). On the assumption that the takusen.cabal file means I should look at Cabal, I had a dig and found the incantation "runhaskell setup.hs". I got the error: F:\takusen>runhaskell setup.hs setup.hs:11:7: Could not find module `Distribution.Compat.FilePath': it is hidden (in package Cabal-1.1.6) I assume this relates to the note in setup.hs "For ghc-6.6 you will need to first install Cabal-1.1.6.1", but as I got GHC from a Windows binary install, I'm not sure where to go from here. I found the Cabal webpage and downloaded 1.1.6.1. Trying to install it, I got the following: F:\cabal-1.1.6.1>runhaskell Setup.lhs install Setup.lhs: error reading ./.setup-config; run "setup configure" command? F:\cabal-1.1.6.1>runhaskell Setup.lhs configure Configuring Cabal-1.1.6.1... configure: Dependency base-any: using base-2.0 configure: Using install prefix: C:\Program Files configure: Binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin configure: Libraries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\Cabal-1.1.6.1\ghc-6.6 configure: Private binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\Cabal-1.1.6.1 configure: Data files installed in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cabal-1.1.6.1 configure: Using compiler: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\bin\ghc.exe configure: Compiler flavor: GHC configure: Compiler version: 6.6 configure: Using package tool: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\bin\ghc-pkg.exe configure: Using ar found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\bin\ar.exe configure: No haddock found configure: No pfesetup found configure: No ranlib found configure: Using runghc found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\bin\runghc.exe configure: No runhugs found configure: No happy found configure: No alex found configure: Using hsc2hs: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6\bin\hsc2hs.exe configure: No c2hs found configure: No cpphs found configure: No greencard found F:\cabal-1.1.6.1>runhaskell Setup.lhs install Installing: C:\Program Files\Haskell\Cabal-1.1.6.1\ghc-6.6 & C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin Cabal-1.1.6.1... Setup.lhs: Error: Could not find module: Distribution.Compiler with any suffix: ["hi"] OK, that's as far as I can go. Remember, what I *want* to do is to run some SQL against my database to get some data into a Haskell program. I'm not up to debugging a Cabal install. (At this point, if I was doing this for "real work", I'd be off to the Python website like a shot...) Can anyone help? I promise, I will document what I end up with! Paul.