"Simon Marlow"
On 03 December 2004 17:10, Keean Schupke wrote:
I find that even on package managed systems I use CPAN to install perl modules... I would have thought a nice central repository on haskell.org (with mirrors of course) where users can contibute their packages, that would be built into a Haskell package tool would be useful even for systems where there is package management.
I find that debian/gentoo etc do not have all the packages available for say perl, and it is nice to have a consistant interface on any platform...
I'm arguing for a consistent interface for all packages (not just Haskell) on any given platform, whereas you're arguing for a consistent interface for Haskell packages across platforms.
There are advantages to both approaches of course, so ideally we'd have both.
Indeed it has always been the plan to have both: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/proposal/a818.html And the program to generate a Debian package from a Cabal package is already implemented and in use (thanks, John Goerzen!) Of course, the client isn't the hard part, the server / database is, and that's under way, but it's just a prototype now: http://www.scannedinavian.org/cgi-bin/hackage/hackage peace, isaac