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BurntSushi / erd

Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema to a graphical entity-relationship diagram.
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Easy Haskell install #27

Closed combinatorist closed 5 years ago

combinatorist commented 7 years ago

I spent 3 hours trying to install this package. As a first time Haskell user, I tried everything with no clue what I was doing until I saw this comment: https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd/issues/24#issuecomment-314775206 by @chreble.

I installed Haskell just to use this library for RDB ERD's. I don't want to learn Haskell or understand how this works*. I think there are others like me who would benefit from this simple fix in the documentation.

I don't know if this is a bug in my Haskell install, the Haskell language / cabal or the dependencies in the ERD package, but as a first time Haskell user, I just wanted this package to work.

*Actually, I'm always curious how things work, but when I step into a whole new domain, I'd rather see it work before learning the details. :)

mcdejonge commented 5 years ago

This branch now works for me so ... dunno

mmzx commented 5 years ago

The suggested approach has been tested (cabal-2.2.0.1), works.