On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:02 -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote:

Hello, What is the preferred way to install a cabal package so that it works with winhugs? When I tried "cabal install --user --hugs" I got an error that it could not find "hugsffi". I managed to get things working by manually downloading the package, and extracting the appropriate source directories to the "packages" folder of winhugs (i.e., basically skipping cabal) but this is kind of clunky. So to summarize, here are my two questions: 1. Am I doing something wrong, or does "cabal" not support WinHugs?, and 2. Does WinHugs have a user specific "packages" folder (so that each user can have their own set of packages)?

I've never tried with winhugs and to be honest we don't test much with hugs either. Don't take that as a discouragement though, it'd be great to have better support for hugs and winhugs in the cabal tool. All it needs is someone to pay it a little attention. For the specific issue, does winhugs come with the hugsffi tool? I expect that it should do though perhaps it's hidden away in some directory. I believe that by default hugs uses $HOME/lib/packages/* for per-user packages. I'm not quite sure what winhugs does. It'd be good to adjust the defaults to make this "just work". Duncan