
3 Sep
2008
3 Sep
'08
8:41 p.m.
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, John MacFarlane wrote:
It would be great if there were an automated or semi-automated way of generating a MacPorts Portfile from a HackageDB package, along the lines of dons' cabal2arch. Has anyone been working on such a thing? And, are any haskell-cafe readers MacPorts committers?
Whoever starts on this should not start from scratch. We now have several of these tools so there's lots of code to look at but ideally we should be sharing more code. One possible plan I have is for cabal-install to be a lib and a tool because there's a lot of useful code in there that these tools could re-use and share. Duncan