Does this release include a new Haskell Platform for Snow Leopard as well? Best, On 4 March 2010 18:30, Don Stewart wrote:

bugfact:

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Using GHC 6.12.1 on Windows currently is hard, since one must compile the latest version of cabal-install, which is a nightmare to do for a typical windows user (install mingw, msys, utils like wget, download correct package from hackage, compile them in correct order, etc etc)

What's the status of the Haskell platform for the latest and greatest Glasgow Haskell Compiler?

We've just entered the release phase,

http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable

And you can expect 2010.2 during ZuriHac.

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Thomas Schilling wrote:

GHC 6.12 changed the format of the internal package database. Only cabal-install 0.8 can read this format properly. Version 0.8 is only available on Hackage, the binaries available are cabal-install 0.6.2. I assume part of the platform release effort is to create new cabal-install binaries.

Ah, OK. Just so long as there's a reason. :-) Is there a reason why a new precompiled binary can't be put up for download?

That and all Cabal 0.8 binaries on Windows suffer from zlib corrupted stream issues. I've got cabal-install binary, but it's not worth distributing :-( There is a cabal ticket for this. Thanks, Neil On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Andrew Coppin writes:

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Is there a reason why a new precompiled binary can't be put up for download?

I would assume because no-one has supplied one (Duncan doesn't use Windows; don't know about the rest of the cabal-install developers).

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Have you tried compiling cabal-install with GHC 6.12.1? I got these stream errors after I compiled it with 6.10.4, but with 6.12.1 it's working flawless.

Woohoo, your tip works! Thanks a lot. Neil

2010/3/6 Neil Mitchell

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That and all Cabal 0.8 binaries on Windows suffer from zlib corrupted stream issues. I've got cabal-install binary, but it's not worth distributing :-(

There is a cabal ticket for this.

Thanks, Neil

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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Andrew Coppin writes:

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Is there a reason why a new precompiled binary can't be put up for download?

I would assume because no-one has supplied one (Duncan doesn't use Windows; don't know about the rest of the cabal-install developers).

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Hi Han, I uploaded my latest version which works with GHC 6.12.1: http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/temp/cabal.zip Hope it helps, Thanks, Neil On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Han Joosten wrote:

Is it possible to post the correct cabal binary at http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html ? A while ago I gave up on trying to get GHC 6.12.1 working, for I lost the battle building cabal on my windows machine.... It would help A LOT when cabal.exe could be downloaded somewhere...

Thanks

Han Joosten

Neil Mitchell wrote:

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Have you tried compiling cabal-install with GHC 6.12.1? I got these stream errors after I compiled it with 6.10.4, but with 6.12.1 it's working flawless.

Woohoo, your tip works! Thanks a lot.

Neil

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2010/3/6 Neil Mitchell

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That and all Cabal 0.8 binaries on Windows suffer from zlib corrupted stream issues. I've got cabal-install binary, but it's not worth distributing :-(

There is a cabal ticket for this.

Thanks, Neil

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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Andrew Coppin writes:

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Is there a reason why a new precompiled binary can't be put up for download?

I would assume because no-one has supplied one (Duncan doesn't use Windows; don't know about the rest of the cabal-install developers).

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Well the precompiled one provided on doesn't seem to work with GHC 6.12.1, you get an error. So yes, it would be nice to at least update the precompiled version on the website :-) On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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Using GHC 6.12.1 on Windows currently is hard, since one must compile the latest version of cabal-install, which is a nightmare to do for a typical windows user

Out of curiosity, why do you need to compile the latest version of cabal-install? Why can't you use the precompiled one?

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