Simon Marlow wrote:
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.
solaris does have an install... theres pkgadd. Still seems like half a dozen or so projects to organise and manage. It seems that a wrapper program to download the _source_ packages download dependencies, and call the compile and install scripts would be simple to write and would improve the interface for such things greatly. (In other words I might be able to find time to do this, but not write several different installers for different platforms)... Keean.
Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries