Antoine Latter wrote:
Personally, I've never used "runhaskell Setup sdist" and I've only ever used "cabal sdist". But I'm not sure where I learned that.
I think cabal-install is a pretty standard util for people to have, and it ships with the Haskell platform now. So the big hurdle is documentation.
Andrew - where does it state that "Setup sdist" is the recommended way of doing this? If it's a wiki you could go and edit it yourself.
Start from the Hackage homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html Click on "how to create a Haskell package", takes you to http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program Section 2.10.1.1 shows you how to create a tarball - using setup sdist rather than cabal sdist. Indeed, I don't think cabal-install is mentioned anywhere. If people seriously want this to become the preferred way to do things, it needs to be much more prominently documented.