[Haskell-cafe] Damnit, we need a CPAN.

[Sterling Clover]

And who bootstraps the searchpath?

--S

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Darrin Thompson <darrinth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been playing a lot with searchpath lately, for doing happs
> > "quickstart" installation as described on happs.org.
> >
> > Searchpath works great when it works, which usually means -- when the
> > module map file is up to date and pointing everywhere to the right
> > place.
> >
> > When the module map file is out of date though, the error messages for
> > missing dependencies that you would get from searchpath are not as
> > good as the error messages you'd get from a cabal configure.
> >
>
> Makes me wonder if searchpath and a good module map file wouldn't be a
> good way to bootstrap cabal-install.
>
> --
> Darrin
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