
indeed, after thinking a wee bit more, yes, it'd be AMAZING if cabal devs
made binaries visibly available to the community!
(also, it does seem like cabal / cabal-install docs aren't super
discoverable for some people)
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki
Hear hear! This would be most welcome.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:
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: 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
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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