On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John MacFarlane
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?
Gregory Wright handles the ports of GHC, alex, happy, haddock, and others.
In my experience thus far, MacPorts feels like a poor match for Cabal.
As far as I can tell, you get at most one active installation of a
given port, which means you can't use MacPorts to manage packages for
multiple Haskell environments (GHC and Hugs, stable GHC and
development GHC, etc.), and after a GHC upgrade, any installed Haskell
packages will still be installed, even though the new GHC can't see or
use them.
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Dave Menendez