[haskell-art] Installing Haskore

[Serge LE HUITOUZE]

Brent Yorgey wrote:

> cabal-install comes with a 'bootstrap' script which downloads
> all its dependencies for you... although, I don't know if it
> works on Windows.

It worked at least for my installing Haskore.


> Anyway, yes, the real answer is, download the Haskell Platform,
> which comes with cabal-install already!

I have some concerns that I might loose things I already have
painfully installed (e.g. "text-icu") in the process of using
the Haskell Platform.

I'm also worried about something similar happening would I upgrade
my GHC (I'm currently using 6.10.1, but 6.10.3 is available).


That's why I was asking for some description on Cabal, though
the needed info probably pertains more to GHC per se...


Happy haskelling.

--Serge

P.S. : Sorry, this is seriously diverging from "haskell-art"
expected topics!