[Haskell-beginners] Error when running `cabal install cabal-install`

[Clemens Lang]

Hi Brandon,

----- On 23 Apr, 2015, at 23:39, Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com wrote:

> I think MP did end up skipping the latest Platform because the build system
> changed in a way that's pretty much hostile to other package systems; they've
> all had to come up with their own ways to build it instead, and our Haskell
> maintainer did not have the time to work out how to adapt one of them to a
> ports-based system or design his own alternative. The next Platform release is
> backing off from that (it ended up being no easier than the old way), so should
> be easier to update.