Re: modules of cabal-install

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Christian Maeder wrote:

Hi,

I would like to reuse the module Distribution.Client.Tar from the cabal-install package.

Are you willing to split up your package? Is it worth to have single module packages?

Currently, Distribution.Client.Tar depends on Distribution.Client.Utils.writeFileAtomic, but this final call could be left to the user. Maybe writeFileAtomic should be in another package, too?

There's a 'tar' package on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tar I've had good lusck using it before, but I'm not sure how it's different from what cabal-install uses. Antoine