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

that still requires some discovery though! The idea (i'd hope) would be to make the "my first ghc install on a vm" (for experts and new folks both) go from #install ghc via whatever mechanism, eg wget, guntar, cd blah ; make install PREFIX=yah #figure out how to install cabal, eg discover wget and then ./bootstrap # cabal install thingsIwannaTry to # install ghc via some wget and make #cabal install nice things On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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point being: It'd be great for haskell usability (and egads amounts of config time, even by seasoned users) the ghc bindists / installers

included

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a cabal-install binary

For Windows, we provide a stand-alone cabal.exe on the Cabal site [1]. I guess we could do the same for Linux and OS X.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html

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