On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:35:11PM -0400, Isaac Jones wrote:
For those interested in the LibraryInfrastructure project, I'd like you to take a look at some example source code I wrote (about 650 not completely beautiful lines) for a haskell-based build and install system: http://www.syntaxpolice.org/tmp/DistUtils-0.0.1.tgz [...] What it does now is build stuff for ghc and make a distribution for Hugs. It can create a packages.conf file for ghc registration, and does something funny for hugs registration (see the README).
The CVS version of Hugs has a simpler mechanism than you're assuming here: a path entry of the form /path/to/dir/* means all immediate subdirectories of /path/to/dir. As far as Hugs is concerned, I'm a bit confused. There seem to be three ways a Haskell package can be installed on a system: - installed using the system (e.g. Debian) package manager - installed by the local administrator in /usr/local (or the equivalent) - installed by users in their home directories The last two will want to keep packages separate for easy deletion and replacement, but it seems wasteful for the first to do so, since the system package manager keeps track of which files belong to which package.