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

[Johan Tibell]

Thanks. Between you and Mikhail we got the Windows side covered. :)


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Niklas Larsson <metaniklas at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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