[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

[Lennart Augustsson]

And to make many, many peoples life easier the binaries could have
been included in ghc 6.10.2 (but I know there are some philosophical
reasons against it).

  -- Lennart

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> daniel.is.fischer:
>> Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
>> > Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> > > In the mean time you can just:
>> > >
>> > > $ cabal install time
>> >
>> > Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine
>> > and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal
>> > install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I
>> > don't know how to tie the knot in this case.
>>
>> Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it.
>> There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and HTTP and
>> installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go.
>> If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be
>> findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).
>> _______________________________________________
>
> There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too.
>
> --  Don
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