RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

[Niklas Larsson]

Hi!

I put a Windows build here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/at7wc1dh0lfr7lc/cabal.exe.zip

Niklas
2014-05-04 2:24 GMT+02:00 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>:

> I just uploaded 1.20.0.1 so there's only an OS X binary so far. I'm
> waiting for someone to send me a Windows one.
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org>wrote:
>
>> 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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