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From: "Don Stewart" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:35 PM
To: "Andrew Coppin" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!
andrewcoppin:
In celebration of Hackage reachin over 1,000 unique packages, I decided
that I would re-visit the problem of attempting to build them on Windows.
Ah yes, I already have the tarball for stream-fusion-0.1.1, but I see
that the latest release is 0.1.2.1. (Unfortunately, there doesn't appear
to be any way to determine what the difference is between the two
versions...)
the true way to install all of hackage is:
cabal install $(all my packages)
where cabal install solves it all.
If that had actually worked it would be great.... I must say that my own
not-so-random sampling (basically "ooh that looks cool, let's try it") is
probably at a 20% success rate or so... It's great when it does work, but it
usually doesn't.
Usually it fails because some part of it tries to run unix shell scripts
(and I try to avoid things which seem like they're unix only, even though
they're no easy way of determining this, so these are packages that at least
to me seemed like they could be perfectly portable if not for unix-specific
installation procedures).
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