[Haskell-cafe] Cabal

[Don Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> Thomas Schilling wrote:
> >Cabal-the-install-tool (package "cabal-install") is actually a
> >different program that sits on top of Cabal-the-library, and it is in
> >fact what really provides the real advantages.  Together with Hackage
> >this is what provides the killer feature of "cabal install foo",
> >however it relies on the building features and meta-data of Cabal.
> >  
> 
> As I understand it, that's also a seperate download. (Whereas the cabal 
> library comes with GHC.)
> 
> One day, if I feel hard-core enough, I might try this tool. (Assuming it 
> works on Windows...) It sounds potentially useful. (Although most actual 
> packages typically have one, maybe two dependencies that aren't already 
> installed, if that.)

*if* .. *might* .. *assuming* .. *potentially* .. *maybe* .. *if*..

You could have built it by now!

    Source: 
        http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal-install/0.6.0/cabal-install-0.6.0.tar.gz

    Dependencies that aren't in core:
        http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/HTTP/3001.1.5/HTTP-3001.1.5.tar.gz
        http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/zlib/0.5.0.0/zlib-0.5.0.0.tar.gz

Note the last one assumes you have zlib the C library installed. This
should be straight forward to obtain.

Enjoy.

-- Don