RE: Cabal and installing packages.
On 03 December 2004 21:01, Daan Leijen wrote:
Keean Schupke wrote:
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
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.
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