"S. Alexander Jacobson"
Right now SearchPath only supports module directory base URLs in map files. I'd love for it to support automatic download and build for Cabal file and package URLs as well. I just don't know how to do it. Perhaps you guys can help on this?
You'd just need a way to map module names to package names / versions. One thing you could do is add that kind of lookup to hackage's XML-RPC interface, shouldn't be too hard. Then you can query hackage "what package does this module belong to?"; it'll return a list of package identifiers (meaning package names / versions) and you' could pick among them, download, unpack, and install. I'd be fine with adding this to the xml-rpc interface if you want. Hopefully Lemmih will speak up if he thinks that's a really bad idea. Hackage can be gotten here: darcs get http://www.scannedinavian.org/~lemmih/hackage/ with dependencies here: http://www.scannedinavian.org/~lemmih/packages/ peace, isaac