We could offer OS X and Linux binaries in addition to the Windows binaries
already downloaded on the cabal home page (http://www.haskell.org/cabal/)
if someone could commit to building them.
Aside: Right now building the Windows binaries is a very ad-hoc process (I
email Mikhail who has a Windows machine and ask him to build one). I'm not
very keen to make the process even slower, given that that will mean I will
make fewer cabal releases. Ideally the binaries could be produced on a
build bot. The very least we should have the Makefile in the cabal repo
being able to create the binary in a reproducible manner.
-- Johan
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam
I feel this blurs the roles of GHC and the Platform.
Can't the cabal-install that comes with the Platform can be used with a later GHC installation? If that's correct, then the only use case that this proposal covers is someone who wants to use a bleeding edge GHC and no other version on a new machine. A separate binary distribution of cabal-install should be more than adequate for that and it avoids coupling GHC to other things.
So a weak -1.
Hey everyone,
I'd like to propose that GHC releases 7.8.1 onwards include a cabal-install (aka cabal) executable, but not include the library deps of cabal-install that aren't already distributed with ghc.(unless ghc should have those deps baked in, which theres very very good reasons not to do.).
currently if someone wants just a basic haskell install of the freshest ghc they have to install a ghc bindist, then do a boostrap build of cabal-install by hand (if they want to actually get anything done :) ).
This is not a human friendly situation for folks who are new to haskell tooling, but want to try out haskell dev on a server style vm or the
On 20/01/2014 00:02, Carter Schonwald wrote: like!
point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers included a cabal-install binary
thoughts? -Carter
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