On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 17:41 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Aug 18, at 17:30, Jason Dagit wrote:
In my experience, with recent GHC there are only 3 packages needed to install cabal-install and it's pretty painless. You need zlib, HTTP and something else that I can't recall off the top of my head (but it tells you). Each of these packages can be had from hackage and they are very standard cabal installations. Sometimes you also need to upgrade cabal; I don't think this was an issue with ghc 6.8.2 and newer though.
When I installed cabal-install under 6.8.2 I also had to get a Cabal 1.4 prerelease from darcs, IIRC.
Which is now released on hackage. It's all on hackage.
cabal-install would be helped a lot by either (a) being folded into Cabal, and in particular the Cabal that comes with GHC; or, failing that, (b) being available as a prebuilt bootstrap package.
We cannot fold it into the Cabal lib package but it will come with the first Haskell Platform release. Now that the development version can re-install itself on Windows (you've no idea how painful windows makes this) I might make a pre-built .exe version available. Duncan