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

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 21 January 2014 04:05, Henning Thielemann
<schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> Am 20.01.2014 17:55, schrieb Anthony Cowley:
>
>
>> cabal-install works very well, and is key to getting a Haskell development
>> environment up and running. The only downside is if there is much call for
>> minimal GHC binary distributions: If we would need to provide multiple
>> downloads, that starts to verge into HP territory. So I shall clarify my +1
>> to say that I always want a cabal-install executable with my GHC, but it
>> would be good to hear from people who really don't want that extra baggage.
>
>
> For me it would mean duplication. Whenever I install GHC I already have a
> running cabal-install and I can install a new one, if a new version of
> cabal-install is released.
>
> I think the banner above the GHC download page makes pretty clear, that the
> binary GHC tarball is not intended for comfort use. Maybe the banner can be
> extended by a hint, where cabal-install executables can be downloaded.

I think I prefer this approach.

Especially since "automatically download the latest cabal-install
available" might lead to the installer being run some time in the
future and getting a version of cabal-install that only works with
newer versions of GHC and thus you get something that can't work
anyway.

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