[Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall

[David Leimbach]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Sebastian Sylvan <
sebastian.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there some sort of bundle that you can use to install cabal-install
> easily? Because it looks to me like I'd have to spend the better part of an
> evening manually downloading and installing the gazillion of dependencies it
> has, which is far too much work when I just wanted to spend ten minutes
> playing with some package...


You typically need HTTP and zlib.  Perhaps cabal-install could have it's own
minimal implementations to be standalone?

However I don't find needing to cabal build and install 2 packages to be so
difficult.

And once you have cabal-install, you've got it ;-)  It should be able to
update itself.

Maybe adding cabal-install to the ghc packaging solves all the problems,
then they just need zlib and http in the main distribution.

Dave


>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Daniel Fischer" <daniel.is.fischer at web.de>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:35 PM
> To: "Alberto G. Corona " <agocorona at gmail.com>; <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] runghc Setup.hs doitall
>
>
>  Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 23:20 schrieb Alberto G. Corona:
>>
>>> Hi guys:
>>>
>>> I don´t know how difficult really is, but it seens that it could be done
>>> because all the necessary elements are there (except perhaps the mapping
>>> package name-hackage url): Why hasn´t been done yet Is unknown to me.
>>> It would be very useful and a big save of time  to have a cabal commad
>>>
>>> "chech-dependencies-and-install-them-by-downloading-them-from-hackage-then-
>>> configure-build-and-install-this-package?. The unix installers do is t
>>> from
>>> binaries and are obsolete, so I have to do it manually with cabal
>>> everytime
>>>  when i download a new compiler version from haskell.org.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>  Alberto.
>>>
>>
>> Use cabal-install:
>>
>> cabal update && cabal install foo
>>
>> checks for dependencies, downloads and builds them automatically (if
>> possible).
>>
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