Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2009 17:22 schrieb Sebastian Sylvan:
Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it has, which is far too much work when I just wanted to spend ten minutes playing with some package...
Wait, 'gazillion of dependencies'? If you have the extralibs bundle built, there are only three dependencies to take care of - a recent Cabal library - HTTP - zlib Of course, downloading and building them manually may take half an hour or so, but it's time well spent, cabal-install makes playing around for ten minutes with some other package so much easier. And of course, as has already been mentioned, there's now a bootstrap.sh included which takes care of the above dependencies for you.