[Haskell-beginners] 'cabal install hdirect' can't find hdirect

[Larry Evans]

On 07/05/10 02:08, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> Hi Larry
>
> I'll take a look at getting the code to work later today.
>   
Thanks very much.
> Which system - GHCi or Hugs - would you prefer to use?
>   
GHCi, because I tried:

  cabal install --hugs

after download & unzip & untar:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/hdirect/0.21.0/hdirect-0.21.0.tar.gz 


but, apparently, the hugs compiler I've got cannot correctly parse
some of the .lhs files downloaded :(
> If you prefer GHCi, I'll replace the whole FiniteMap module with
> Data.Map as FiniteMap has been made obsolete by Data.Map.
>   
That sounds best.
> Best wishes
>
> Stephen
>
>   
Thank you Stephen.

-regards,

Larry