Comments on: When will the Haskell community finally get their act together http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/when-will-the-haskell-community-finally-get-their-act-together What happens at LShift Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Shae Erisson http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/when-will-the-haskell-community-finally-get-their-act-together#comment-17 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:41:49 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/when-will-the-haskell-community-finally-get-their-act-together#comment-17 <p>Cabal isn't considered finished yet, and cabal-get even more so. It's getting closer though. There's a lot of activity centered on Cabal and supporting tools.</p> Cabal isn’t considered finished yet, and cabal-get even more so. It’s getting closer though. There’s a lot of activity centered on Cabal and supporting tools.

]]> by: matthias http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/when-will-the-haskell-community-finally-get-their-act-together#comment-14 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:17:27 +0000 http://www.lshift.net/blog/2005/10/11/when-will-the-haskell-community-finally-get-their-act-together#comment-14 <p>A solution to the particular problem above was <a href="http://haskell.org/pipermail/c2hs/2005-August/000502.html">posted</a> to the c2hs mailing list. That was two months ago. Why the c2hs authors didn't bother releasing a new version with the problem fixed is beyond me.</p> <p>I also had lots of fun trying to get <a href="http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/CabalGet">cabal-get</a> to work. I had to resort to hacking nearly a dozen makefiles and package config files to get it to build and install. Then I tried using it to install several of the available packages - <em>all</em> of the installations failed for one reason or another!</p> A solution to the particular problem above was posted to the c2hs mailing list. That was two months ago. Why the c2hs authors didn’t bother releasing a new version with the problem fixed is beyond me.

I also had lots of fun trying to get cabal-get to work. I had to resort to hacking nearly a dozen makefiles and package config files to get it to build and install. Then I tried using it to install several of the available packages - all of the installations failed for one reason or another!

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