Achim Schneider
Well, then there are developers who don't want to do .ebuilds, .rpms for 20 distributions, .debs for 20 distributions, .cabs... Meaning that if you have a project with 5 developers using 3 1/2 distributions, you will have a hard time installing.
I think you should either require your developers to use the system that is provided to them, or be able and willing to maintain their own system. Most large Linux distributions seem to come with lots of Haskell-related stuff nowadays - 139 packages on my Ubuntu install (divide by something close to 3, as most library stuff comes in -dev, -doc and -prof variants).
You have a point, though, and I wouldn't mind at all cabal-install being integrated into portage,
I'm not too familiar with portage, but I think a better solution is to provide tools to automatically generate packages for the various systems. How would you specify dependencies on non-haskell components in a portable way?
Aren't there any usable third-party package managers for windoze?
The most usable one I've seen is Steam from Valve, IIRC. It'd be cool if Haskell packages were provided this way.
Maybe gentoo should start to do binary releases, too, superseding debian and any other distribution.
Yeah, that'll happen. :-) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants