On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 13:26 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
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Hi folks,
I've got an application to release. I'm releasing the source, but I also wanted to release binary versions for people that don't have GHC. I developed on Windows, so making a Windows executable was simple. I also have access to an Ubuntu Linux box, on which I can easily build and test my app.
But, I'm a bit confused about how to release binaries for Linux. It's not so simple as on Windows. Or, maybe it is but I don't know it. What do people recommend as a way of distributing Linux binaries? I tried to make a Debian package and couldn't figure it out, but maybe that's overkill. GHC itself has some kind of tarball for the binary distributions, one for Debian and one for Red Hat. How would I make such a package and what would go into it? There's only one executable, so it shouldn't be too complicated.
You could make a .cabal package for it, and use that to construct a binary tar.gz bundle that's installable.
Duncan, is there a cabal binary-dist?
No. If we want it then someone needs to look at this ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/47 What you can do however is use cabal to make an install image (cabal copy --destdir=) and then write your own install script or make a deb or rpm or whatever. Duncan