On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:54 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
That's helpful, but I still don't understand. I'm just Joe User. I'd like to install GTK. I'd like to download one thing and install it. I don't much mind whether it's called a "package" or a "shipment".
Hmm, but it's not just "GTK" it's actually a whole collection of packages, some core and some optional. Some will require other C libs that you might not have installed on your system (eg if you run Windows or Mac, or if you run Linux/Solaris/BSD but not Gnome). At the moment Gtk2Hs is distributed as one big package and the configure script figures out which packages can be build given the C libs that you've got installed. I'm not sure how best to deal with that if it's split into multiple cabal packages. Duncan