Re: [Haskell-beginners] Distributing executables

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Alp Mestan wrote:

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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What OS is it for?  (I'm inclined to believe it's windows, but I can't be sure.)

In either case, why distribute it as a _completely_ statically linked executable, wouldn't putting together an installer just as good?

It would. But actually, while going to work, I was wondering if a sort of Haskell application deployer would be a good idea ? It'd package Haskell apps with the necessary dynamic libraries, etc, depending on the target system of course, just like NSIS or so does. Except if nobody can't find a good reason not to use tools like NSIS which are already portable IIRC.

It could be a good extension to Cabal (not the tool), currently there's the target 'sdist', maybe add a target 'wininst'. Similar to how Python's distutils have targets for MSI and Windows installers. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe