#758: expose existing functionality: fetchPackage/unpackPackage ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ `cabal-install` has functionality for fetching and unpacking `cabal` packages (`.tar.gz`, as produced by `cabal sdist`). It would be very helpful to expose these functions as `cabal-install` commands. `unpackPackage` is the more important of the two, though being able to fetch individual packages from URLs (think blogs, wikis, ..) without having to establish a full hackage-like repo would also be very welcome. Most importantly, you could remove the whole http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_unpack_a_tar_file_in_windows hazzle. Instead of package authors and users having to worry about whether some unpacker is installed client-side, everyone could just rely on {{{ cabal unpack Example.tar.gz }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/758 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects