Alastair Reid wrote:
I think it's a mistake to make it a Haskell script though because that's bound to lead to bootstrapping issues. I'd use a shell script instead.
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:38 pm, David Roundy wrote:
The shell script would lead to issues on windows, though. [...]
Remember, we're talking about a script for _building_ packages not for installing them. For windows, people will use .msi packages to install. People who want to build packages generally need to install a bunch of other things too. Obviously, GHC users will have installed cygwin (whcih includes shells) but even Hugs users need to install a C compiler if they're using a package that uses the foreign function interface (and quite a lot of libraries involve the ffi). Also, my experience from Hugs is that people do not want to build packages from source and, though I think binary packages are a flawed concept, I choose to use binary packages for my Linux system even though I could theoretically build my entire system from source. -- Alastair Reid