Re: RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

Bump! have we reached any consensus on the different variations of this proposal? a) i seem to recall some of the cabal maintainers expressing interest in hosting binaries for major platforms b) some sort of platform-lite thats the ghc bin dist + cabal-install, targeted at folks using haskell on server rather than desktop envs -- there was a bunch of strong support for this (esp those using haskell and aren't on the major linux distros) c) incuding a cabal install binary in the release build bin dist for ghc (there were some reasonable arguments against this) am I missing any major ideas folks had? both the "mini lite platform for servers" and "cabal binaries to easily download" are great ideas. -Carter On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Jens Petersen wrote:

+1 for Carter's proposal - I had actually been planning to make the same suggestion, but just saw this thread now...

On 27 January 2014 09:39, Austin Seipp wrote:

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As for shipping with GHC itself: this is technically possible, but slightly annoying to implement, and it also makes the build processes for a release slightly more annoying (which is mostly my problem.) But it is all doable. However, keep in mind I *do not* maintain the binary distributions for everything, nor do Cabal devs have access to all hardware - so all people making upstream releases for their platforms (i.e. Solaris, PowerPC, ARM/Linux, etc) must also package cabal themselves. But perhaps that's not a huge deal.

If ghc provided cabal-install I would be happy to ship that in Fedora instead of a separate package. To me cabal-install is probably the most important tool/package in HP (except for ghc itself of course): many people build/bootstrap latest ghc themselves it seems and so providing the latest cabal-install out of the box too would be a big win IMO, making it much easier to test ghc. (I wouldn't even mind if ghc shipped cabal-install's dependencies too.)

Jens

ps Of course it could be made a configure option whether to build cabal-install or now: the cabal-install source is already there. ;) :)

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