the point is: there should be some *easy* way to get/install cabal-install binaries for those who aren't in a situation where haskell platform is appropriate.

I generally regard haskell platform as "for students", "people with enterprise support cycles" and "oh shit, my haskelll install is borked and i need to get things working again right nowwwwww". I understand that certain distros/package managers regard it as a stable substrate (rightfully, cf my remark about support cycles).  

But that doesn't preclude people from doing their own setup, and if that is common place (as I believe it is, though i've not done a survey), having binaries at are easy to install is a reasonable goal!

-Carter


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li> wrote:
> I think that "something" need to be done to make it easier to set up >
GHC + cabal, independently of HP (unless HP becomes the "one true
> way" to install Haskell, which I doubt is the case).

Isn't that what this banner on
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_3 is supposed to signify?

"Stop!

For most users, we recommend installing the Haskell Platform instead of
GHC. The current Haskell Platform release includes a recent GHC release
as well as some other tools (such as cabal), and a larger set of
libraries that are known to work together."

For the people who want GHC to include cabal-install, what are the
obstacles to using the Haskell Platform instead?

One possibility I can see is disk space. The other reason, raised by
Carter at the start of this thread, is wanting to use the freshest GHC.

Cheers,

Ganesh
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