[shelarcy] Re: Cabal-Install doesn't work well on Windows.

[Alson Kemp]

  I checked into that particular build failure and it looks as though
cabal-install is catching keyboard signals and terminating the (G)HC
process.  While this is a good idea, it doesn't seem absolutely
necessary for V1.0.  Perhaps we could remove it and similar features
until cabal-install gets up and stable?  Then we can reintroduce such
features.

  I'll see if I can get the thing to build on Windows, but have
successfully avoided using Window for development until now so might
not be too competent...  (err...  read "even less competent".)

  - Alson


--- Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org> wrote:

> Would anyone care to try to get cabal-install going on windows?  Or
> should we see about getting it going correctly in Unix first?
> 
> peace,
> 
>   isaac
> 
> 
> > To: cabal-devel at haskell.org
> CC: "Isaac Jones" <ijones at syntaxpolice.org>
> Subject: Re: Cabal-Install doesn't work well on Windows.
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:02:00 +0900
> From: shelarcy <shelarcy at gmail.com>
> 
> Hello.
> 
> On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:31:35 +0900, Isaac Jones
> <ijones at syntaxpolice.org>  
> wrote:
> > I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier.  We're scrapping that version of
> > cabal-install and replacing it with a better version that can
> download
> > packages from the internet.  I'd certainly be happy to hear any
> > reports of how this works on windows.  I don't know if it works at
> > all, and so any help would be great.
> 
> 
> Windows (mingw) version of GHC has no System.Posix.Signals functions
> and Types. System.Posix.Signals module exist, but no definition now.
> Because Windows' native posix support is very very poor, so signal
> support is also poor.
> 
> Cause of these reason. I can't build cabal-install on Windows
> Enviorment.
> 
> runhaskell Setup.lhs build notice these errors;
> 
> -----
> 
> ../Network/Hackage/CabalInstall/Install.hs:107:39
>      Not in scope: `installHandler'
> 
> ../Network/Hackage/CabalInstall/Install.hs:107:54
>      Not in scope: `keyboardSignal'
> 
> ../Network/Hackage/CabalInstall/Install.hs:107:70
>      Not in scope: data constructor `Catch'
> 
> ../Network/Hackage/CabalInstall/Install.hs:109:25
>      Not in scope: `installHandler'
> 
> ../Network/Hackage/CabalInstall/Install.hs:109:40
>      Not in scope: `keyboardSignal'
> 
> ----
> 
> Does anyone have plan to support cabakl-install on Windows?
> Or does anyone know that how to solove these problems?
> 
> 
> 
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