Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems with Haskell Platform

5 Jun 2010


      allbery:
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On Jun 4, 2010, at 06:54 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
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Don Stewart  writes:
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However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro
tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux
knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file).
Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum?
I don't know how it is in Arch, but for Gentoo we need to do a lot of
QA'ing to make sure our ebuilds generated with hackport work properly
(which is one reason why we don't churn ebuilds out as fast as you
generate PKBUILDs).  Part of the problem is probably that hackport  
isn't
as polished as cabal2arch, but a few other concerns we need to take  
care
of are:
I don't think anyone just does a conversion and bodges it into the  
package system, regardless of distribution, package system, or  
conversion tool.  (Or language; you don't do it with gems, eggs, or CPAN 
packages either.)  The tool does the boring part of the job for you, but 
of course you want to edit metadata, test, etc. before setting it loose.  
Release engineering is not optional.
Build/does not build? That can be automated.

-- Don