On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> wrote:
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. -- Dave Menendez <dave@zednenem.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>