Re: [Haskell-cafe] Creating binary distributions with Cabal

Hey autopackage looks swish! WiX also looks like a nice, more native solution for Windows. Cheers! On 20 August 2010 11:36, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:18, Christopher Done wrote:

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Does Cabal have a way to produce binary distributions from a package?

I need to create a binary distribution of my project which does not depend on GHC or any development tools. The package should include all required data files and configuration files. I've got the latter covered with Data-Files and getDataFileName, but not sure about what to do regarding configuration files -- read/write to $HOME/.myproject/config or $HOME/.myprojectrc, etc., or what?

I'm specifically targeting Redhat because that's the production server, but I'm wondering if there is or will be a way to agnostically access data files and configuration files without having to think about what OS it will be running on, in the same way I can use sockets or file access without worrying about the particular OS.

Something like cabal sdist --binary --rpm/deb/arch/win/etc?

How does everyone else package up their Haskell programs for binary distribution?

This is what package managers like rpm, dpkg, pacman, etc shines at.  So for Distribution for Linux that's what I suggest you use.  For Windows you'd probably have to hook things up to some installer-generator (WiX[1] maybe?).

Other options are autopackage[2] and zeroinstall[3].

/M

[1] http://wix.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.autopackage.org/ [3] http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/ -- Magnus Therning                        (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org          Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus         identi.ca|twitter: magthe