Update README.md to warn of using cabal 1.22.5, which is very buggy

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Update README.md to warn of using cabal 1.22.5, which is very buggy #221

Closed daniel-kun closed 6 years ago

daniel-kun commented 6 years ago

Add a note on cabal-1.22.5, which seems to be prone to errors when installing packages. I used 1.22.5, since it is in the matrix of the Haskell Platform for the latest GHC 7.10 release, hence it was my preferred choice. It didn't work at all on my fresh setup on a Raspberry Pi and updating to cabal-1.22.9 solved the problem for me. Answers on github bugs and Stack Overflow suggest that the relevant fix is already included in cabal 1.22.6 - see https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2663.

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evancz commented 6 years ago

I think it is better to let them solve it by pushing new versions of the Haskell Platform. I do not want the docs here to be docs about problems that no longer exist in other projects.

Anyway, I hope folks having this issue will find the issue in the meantime.