RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases
Ashley Yakeley
ashley at semantic.org
Sun May 4 00:06:04 UTC 2014
I couldn't find them, and they're not listed at
<http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html> (except OS X), or at
<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install>, or at
<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install>.
-- Ashley
On 2014-05-03 17:00, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> I think there's now hosted official cabal install binaries online.
> I'm Afk but they should be a short google away. Should be linked more
> prominently though
>
> On Saturday, May 3, 2014, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org
> <mailto:ashley at semantic.org>> wrote:
>
> So I want to install GHC + cabal on a new system, building cabal
> packages with profiling and documentation. Here's what I have to do:
>
> 1. Download, unpack and install GHC.
>
> 2. Download and unpack cabal-install, and run bootstrap.sh. As
> part of the bootstrap, it will download and build a bunch of packages.
>
> 3. Delete the downloaded packages ("rm -rf ~/.ghc/*") because they
> were built without profiling or documentation.
>
> 4. Call "cabal update" to get a default .cabal/config file.
>
> 5. Edit .cabal/config to switch on library-profiling,
> executable-profiling, and documentation.
>
> 6. Build my stuff.
>
> This would be much simplified if binary versions of cabal-install
> were available. (It would be even simpler if they were just
> included in the GHC builds -- I could eliminate 2 & 3.)
>
> -- Ashley Yakeley
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