Docs for bootstrapping an environment using virthualenv

[spookylukey]

It would be great if usage instructions included installation instructions.

A common use of virthualenv would be to deploy some Haskell software somewhere, which includes setting up a Haskell environment on the target machine (e.g. web deployment), which might be shared hosting. What would be the best bootstrap approach in this situation? To install virthualenv I presumably need cabal-install first, and will also need cabal-install inside my virthualenv in order to install my actual software?

Thanks!

[Paczesiowa]

Hey Luke,

Don't use virthualenv, please switch to hsenv.

as for bootstrapping, I plan to finish this week new feature that will allow using haskell environments on machines that have absolutely no haskell tools installed - you will just copy a hsenv binary and it will download ghc binary and bootstrap cabal-install for you.

Regards, Bartek Æwik³owski

2013/12/9 Luke Plant [email protected]

It would be great if usage instructions included installation instructions.

A common use of virthualenv would be to deploy some Haskell software somewhere, which includes setting up a Haskell environment on the target machine (e.g. web deployment), which might be shared hosting. What would be the best bootstrap approach in this situation? To install virthualenv I presumably need cabal-install first, and will also need cabal-install inside my virthualenv in order to install my actual software?

Thanks!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/Paczesiowa/virthualenv/issues/46 .

[spookylukey]

Thanks for the heads up.

If virthualenv is not to be used, why isn't there a prominent notice at the top of the README saying so? An awful lot of time would be saved if people spent 2 minutes updating their dead projects!