how to upgrade to a new version of Haskell?

Johan Larson

23 Jun 2014 23 Jun '14

5:48 p.m.

I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it? This is on Windows. -- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

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Henk-Jan van Tuyl

23 Jun 23 Jun

6:46 p.m.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:48:26 +0200, Johan Larson wrote:

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I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it?

This is on Windows.

Yes, you can keep the old compiler and packages, so that you can test new software with an old configuration if you like. The old things are not in the way for the new software. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- Folding@home What if you could share your unused computer power to help find a cure? In just 5 minutes you can join the world's biggest networked computer and get us closer sooner. Watch the video. http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html Haskell programming --

KC

6:55 p.m.

Better to install it to a different folder than Program Files since Windows has special protections on that folder and many others. :) -- -- Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D Casey On Jun 23, 2014 2:48 PM, "Johan Larson" wrote:

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I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it?

This is on Windows.

-- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

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Johan Larson

8:01 p.m.

I found a bit of an odd problem. In my configuration, which I haven't modified, the installed copy of cabal appears in the path earlier than the directory into which executables built by cabal are installed, meaning that when cabal installs a new version of itself, that version is not used by default. That doesn't seem right. The installed location of cabal: C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin Where cabal puts executables: C:\Users\Johan\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin I can work around it, sure, but is this a deliberate choice or a blindspot in the installer? On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, KC wrote:

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Better to install it to a different folder than Program Files since Windows has special protections on that folder and many others. :)

-- --

Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D

Casey

On Jun 23, 2014 2:48 PM, "Johan Larson" wrote:

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I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it?

This is on Windows.

-- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

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-- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

Yuras Shumovich

24 Jun 24 Jun

5:55 a.m.

It is an old bug in HP, see https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/51 (it is imported from trac, see http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/146 ) 24.06.2014 3:01 пользователь "Johan Larson" написал:

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I found a bit of an odd problem.

In my configuration, which I haven't modified, the installed copy of cabal appears in the path earlier than the directory into which executables built by cabal are installed, meaning that when cabal installs a new version of itself, that version is not used by default.

That doesn't seem right.

The installed location of cabal: C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\lib\extralibs\bin Where cabal puts executables: C:\Users\Johan\AppData\Roaming\cabal\bin

I can work around it, sure, but is this a deliberate choice or a blindspot in the installer?

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, KC wrote:

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Better to install it to a different folder than Program Files since Windows has special protections on that folder and many others. :)

-- --

Sent from an expensive device which will be obsolete in a few months! :D

Casey

On Jun 23, 2014 2:48 PM, "Johan Larson" wrote:

...
I am currently running an old installation of the Haskell environment from 2012, and I would like to upgrade. Can I just grab the installer from https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html and run it?

This is on Windows.

-- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

-- Johan Larson -- Toronto, Canada

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