On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Titto Assini
Can anyone explain why, now that we have cabal and therefore package installation is just a short "cabal install X" away do we need distribution specific binary packages?
I personally prefer my hackage packages freshly cooked ...
In my mind it all comes down to _user_ convenience. As a developer I don't mind using Cabal to pull and install in the latest and greatest from Hackage. However, I _really_ don't see my wife ever doing the same just to try out the greatest window manager through time: Xmonad. Cabal+Hackage is great, but they don't take away the need for distro pacakges. The story is the same for Haskell as it is for Perl, Ruby, Python, etc... I am sure there are other reasons in favour of packaging for distros, but this is the one _I_ care about :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe