On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Magnus Therning
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.
Actually, I was more thinking about a separate tool. Something you'd just install, from cabal/apt/pacman/whatever, using some external system tools to check out dependencies of the application, then packaging everything and putting some install.sh script around for linux, and a nice installer under Windows, etc. It is just an idea, but the main point here is that it'd just be "simple". (of course, the idea I describe may fail heavily for packaging very complex and heavy apps, IMO, but I think there are workarounds) PS : shouldn't we move this discussion to -cafe ? -- Alp Mestan http://blog.mestan.fr/ http://alp.developpez.com/