RE: Cabal and installing packages.

On 03 December 2004 21:01, Daan Leijen wrote:

Keean Schupke wrote:

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But I see what you are saying too, a program to convert a cabal-package into say an ebuild for gentoo.

And a what for Windows? and MacOS X? and Sun Solaris? and ... ;-)

It was always part of the plan to auto-generate Windows installers (and ebuilds, and RPMs, etc. etc.) from Cabal packages, see the proposal: http://www.haskell.org/libraryInfrastructure/proposal/index.html That leaves Solaris out in the cold a bit, because they don't have any kind of installer system at all. However, you can still build from source (./Setup.lhs configure; ./Setup.lhs build; ./Setup.lhs install), it's not that hard. Cheers, Simon