Comments on: A Plea For “cabal install” http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/ Hackfoofery Sat, 18 May 2013 16:45:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cabal-install is awesome | Alson Kemp http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Cabal-install is awesome | Alson Kemp Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:11:36 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-130 [...] See also: 2009-The Year Of Hackage and A Plea For Cabal-install [...]

]]> By: 2009: The Year Of Hackage | Alson Kemp http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-53 2009: The Year Of Hackage | Alson Kemp Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:24:08 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-53 [...] seems pretty stable, but the greater GHC platform seems pretty unstable. I’ve already written about how we’re [sorta] missing a vital part of the tool chain (it was broken when I tried to [...]

]]> By: alson http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-50 alson Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:27:12 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-50 Saizan,

I tried building Yi a couple of years ago… Probably should have checked the project again before commenting since the project looks to be very alive. I’ll try to build it again.

Also, thank you for the note about “cabal install” pulling in dependencies. I would expect “cabal build” to do the same, too, no? But it doesn’t…

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]]> By: Saizan http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Saizan Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:15:42 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-49 Fabio. you’re probably confusing (since it’s easy..) Cabal the library and cabal the executable, which comes in the cabal-install package, since the latter does download all the dependencies and build them automatically, either by “cabal install foo” or running “cabal install” in a directory with a .cabal file

Shawn, see the –global options, it’ll install packages in the global packagedb and under /usr/local by default, see also –prefix and –root-cmd, or cabal install –help in general.

Alson, tried building yi from the darcs repo?

]]> By: alson http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-48 alson Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:01:44 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-48 gwern,

I definitely know how to install Haskell packages, but, as with many other languages, it’s much easier and more enjoyable to automate the process. Turbinado has the following dependency list (many of which are built into GHC) and making sure that you have just-the-right versions installed is not fun…: 

                       base < 4.0, 
                       containers, 
                       directory, 
                       filepath, 
                       harp == 0.4, 
                       HDBC, 
                       HDBC-postgresql, 
                       hslogger, 
                       hsx == 0.4.5, 
                       HTTP < 4000, 
                       mtl, 
                       network, 
                       old-locale, 
                       old-time, 
                       parsec, 
                       plugins, 
                       pretty, 
                       regex-compat, 
                       time

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]]> By: gwern http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-47 gwern Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:50:52 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-47 You guys know that cabal install acts basically the same for installing from a directory and installing from Hackage, right? ie. ‘cabal install yi’ fetchs and builds and installs dependencies for yi just as ‘cd ~/bin/yi && cabal install’ (where ~/bin/yi is obviously the repo) would.

]]> By: alson http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-46 alson Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:25:48 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-46 Fabio,

I can’t wait to see if I come up with a proper ORM, either… I’m a generalist so I’m kinda hoping that I can get the ORM to a reasonable state so that someone who’s smarter can take and run with it…

Shawn,

I was wondering the same thing the other day. My assumption had been that the cabal command line tool would be installed wherever GHC was installed (~/bin or /usr/local/bin). I’m not sure why that isn’t the case, but the deviation from expected/default behavior won’t help adoption of the tool. I assume that the Cabal team chose to install in ~/.cabal for a reason… I just don’t know what the reason is…

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]]> By: Fabio Cevasco http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Fabio Cevasco Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:59:39 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-45 @Alson Yes, I was kind of “expecting” cabal to download and build all the dependencies for me :-) Actually, writing a script which does so shouldn’t be too hard (at least a very rudimentary one)…

I had a very brief look at Turbinado, and it seems promising. I can’t wait to see if you come up with a proper (and simple) ORM.

]]> By: Shawn http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Shawn Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:55:08 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-44 Why does it install in ~/.cabal by default?. I want a root level install shared by all users. How about /usr/local or /opt/local? Maybe this is possible, but it’s not obvious or the default.

]]> By: alson http://www.alsonkemp.com/haskell/a-plea-for-cabal-install/comment-page-1/#comment-43 alson Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:19:10 +0000 http://www.alsonkemp.com/?p=177#comment-43 Fabio,

Funny. I’ve tried to build Yi, too. I don’t think that I had much luck either! ;)

On deps: I think that “cabal install” does handle dependencies, but it only does so on install. Thus far, I don’t think that you can do “cabal build” and have dependencies tracked down and built (which I would love for use with Turbinado).

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