Re: Cabal and installing packages.

Keean Schupke writes:

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

I was suggesting something _along the lines_ of g-cpan.pl (maybe g-cabal or cabal emerge or ...) that can transparently install cabal packages (if they are not already available over the usual transport channels) as native packages. Such a tool might be feasable for other package managers too, I just don't if there are any.

A small problem is gentoo's emerge does not pass parameters to the scripts, so you would have to have an ebuild for every haskell package.

g-cpan.pl just generates multiple ebuilds. g-cabal/cabal emerge/... could do the same. Gabriel.