bulat.ziganshin:
Hello Haskell,
it's well-known that large class of users (including haskell developers) prefer to use visual tools. for hackage/cabal-install this means that they need a GUI that allow them to find libs they need and install them. this mean some sort of GUI frontend to cabal-install, that isn't yet written. but we can go other way
now Hackage web site by itself provides good enough GUI for library search. the only problem is that after finding something useful, user needs to type in "cabal install Foo" in her cmdline - and that's in the best case when she know about cabal-install and had it installed
i think that we are just one click away of full GUI support - all that's reuired is to publish on Hackage page for Foo library file Foo.hackage and associate this extension with Cabal. by clicking on such file user will auto download it, and then cabal will read name of package to installed from the file
going further, Hackage may provide links to execution of "cabal update" and other commands, becoming sort of GUI for cabal-install. this may be provided as files with the same hackage extension
If you set this up, could you publish it to the list -- sounds like a very cool idea. -- Don