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

I couldn't find them, and they're not listed at http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html (except OS X), or at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install, or at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install. -- Ashley On 2014-05-03 17:00, Carter Schonwald wrote:

I think there's now hosted official cabal install binaries online. I'm Afk but they should be a short google away. Should be linked more prominently though

On Saturday, May 3, 2014, Ashley Yakeley mailto:ashley@semantic.org> wrote:

So I want to install GHC + cabal on a new system, building cabal packages with profiling and documentation. Here's what I have to do:

1. Download, unpack and install GHC.

2. Download and unpack cabal-install, and run bootstrap.sh. As part of the bootstrap, it will download and build a bunch of packages.

3. Delete the downloaded packages ("rm -rf ~/.ghc/*") because they were built without profiling or documentation.

4. Call "cabal update" to get a default .cabal/config file.

5. Edit .cabal/config to switch on library-profiling, executable-profiling, and documentation.

6. Build my stuff.

This would be much simplified if binary versions of cabal-install were available. (It would be even simpler if they were just included in the GHC builds -- I could eliminate 2 & 3.)

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