19 Nov
2007
19 Nov
'07
3:19 p.m.
ndmitchell:
Hi
- The packages seem to be of quite variable quality. Some are excellent, some are rather poor (or just not maintained any more).
The problem is that only one person gets to comment on the quality of a library, the author, who is about the least objective person.
- Almost all packages seem to require a long list of dependencies.
Cabal-install will turn this from being a negative to being a positive, if it ever delivers on its promise.
Works for me here: cabal install xmonad or cabal install stream-fusion It's beta: needs darcs Cabal (1.3.x), and darcs cabal-install. We're using it at Galois already though, so I would encourage more testing/users. -- Don