On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:22 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
Tim wins the prize for the 500th Haskell package in Arch Linux,
Which, I should like to note, demonstrates why the original Cabal design[1] was basically right[2] in that it allows this kind of automated translation into native packages. You cannot do that with autoconf. The other distros are following a similar course though not yet quite as successfully as Don has demonstrated for Arch. There are similar translation tools for Gentoo, Debian and RPM-based distros with varying levels of sophistication and automation. I think the folks who hack on these translation tools should get together and share code and experience so we can all achieve better levels of automation. The highest levels of automation will also require more centralised QA on hackage. That's where we should be going. Duncan [1] http://haskell.org/cabal/proposal/index.html [2] I'm not at all claiming credit for that design. That was decided well before I started hacking on Cabal.