On 03 December 2004 16:24, Keean Schupke wrote:
Cool, I should have paid more attention to the Cabal stuff... Next question is;
Is there planned to be a front-end for fetching packages, that would let you download and install a package (and all its dependancies) from the command line? All I could find were the ./setup <option> commands?
If you're on a system with a good package manager (i.e. *BSD, Debian, Gentoo) then the plan is that this is all handled by the system package manager. We don't want to duplicate that work, and we want to coexist with the system's package tools as much as possible. Cabal will make it easy to generate package skeletons for these systems. We don't have a good story for the rest yet - that includes systems that don't have a package manager, and when you want to install packages in your own filespace on a multi user machine. A tool to do what you describe would definitely help here. Cheers, Simon