duncan.coutts:
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.
It seems the front end of cabal2arch -- general parsing and processing of .cabal files, would be reusable in any tool. foo.cabal url | v Parsed cabal file | v Resolved dependencies/flags | v Normalised for Arch | v Translated into ArchPkg ADT | v instance Pretty ArchPkg | v foo.tar.gz native Arch package. You just have to define a data structure for the target output, and a pretty printer instance, and any platform specific dep differences. -- Don