ANN: cabal-install-1.16.0 (and Cabal-1.16.0.1)

[Erik Hesselink]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the behalf of the many contributors to cabal, I'm proud to present
> cabal-install-1.16.0.

Congratulations and thanks to all those involved!

> To install:
>
>     cabal update
>     cabal install cabal-install-1.16.0 Cabal-1.16.0.1

It seems that hackage no longer has a preferred-version for cabal, so
that a simple 'cabal update && cabal install cabal-install' will do
the trick. Was this intentional? With 0.14, it took quite a while for
it to become the preferred version.

Erik