[Agda] Dependencies for compiling agda, principal question

[David Wahlstedt]

Nisse explained to me that the new cabal support will enable to install
agda-code by means of cabal. This explains the dependency. Sorry for my
ignorance. I can understand that it would take more (redundant) work to
support agda in both these cabal versions. Maybe one could have two phases:
let the core of agda be independent of cabal, and then the system with agda
libraries could be through cabal. Then one can choose to install the
libraries later, or manually ?

David

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:20 PM, David Wahlstedt
<david.wahlstedt at gmail.com>wrote:

> This sounds good!
> As I said, I am already happy for adga 2.2.6 via hackage and ghc-6.10.
> It works fine on mac snow leopard and ubuntu 7, 8 and 9 for me.
>
> But still my "idealistic" question remains unanswered:
> What would be wrong having bleeding edge agda depend on stable and
> available versions of other tools, like cabal, ghc, etc ?
>
> This was the point I tried to make.
>
> BR
> /David
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Nils Anders Danielsson <nad at cs.nott.ac.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-20 10:26, David Wahlstedt wrote:
>>
>>> I would be very grateful if one could take a principal conservative
>>> decision---that the code should always be buildable with the widely
>>> available version of the Haskell platform (which is now still 6.10).
>>>
>>
>> The currently released version builds under GHC 6.10. The next version
>> might depend on GHC 6.12, but the current version of the Haskell
>> Platform ships with GHC 6.12 (not 6.10 [*]), so that should not pose
>> much of a problem.
>>
>> [*] The most recent version of the platform is available, in binary
>> form, for MacOS, Windows, and a number of Linux distributions. It will
>> be available for Ubuntu when the next version is released, in a week or
>> so.
>>
>> --
>> /NAD
>>
>
>
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