[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install problem with alex dependency in bytestring-lexing

[Stephen Tetley]

Alex is supplied as part of the Platform though which is the
recommended system for beginners, is Yesod currently in advance of the
Platform?

On 16 March 2012 10:56, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> The problem is that many of the people trying out Yesod are newcomers to
> Haskell. They are going to try  "cabal install yesod" and have it fail
> because alex is missing. This is not a good introduction Haskell/Yesod.