Building Debian packages seems a bit hard to do for laymen like me. Anyone have a script that takes a .cabal file, some additional meta data and creates a .deb package? It would be really nice if we could make this procedure easier. Every time I read some documentation on how to create a Debian package, I feel like crying. ;)
Cheers, Johan On 9/19/07, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Panne wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 09:44, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > >> This discussion has sparked a question in my mind: > >> > >> What is the process for the inclusion of modules / packages in ghc, hugs > >> and other compilers & interpreters? > > > > Personal interest of the people working on GHC et. al. ;-) > > > >> I thought the master plan was that less would come with the compiler / > >> interpreter and the user would install packages using cabal. [...] > > > > Although this statement might be a bit heretical on this list, I'll have to > > repeat myself again that Cabal, cabal-install, cabal-whatever will *never* > > be > > the right tool for the end user to install Haskell packages on platforms > > with > > their own packaging systems like RPM (the same holds for other systems, I > > just use RPM as an example here). > > I think you're identifying a non-problem here. Cabal was never intended to > be used instead of the system's packaging tools for installing packages > globally on the system, if you look back through the original Cabal design > discussions you'll see this. We recognised the critical importance of > working with, rather than around, emerge/ports/RPM/apt/whatever. > > Nowadays from a Cabal package you get make an RPM, a Windows installer, and > the Gentoo folks have imported the entirety of Hackage. This is how it's > meant to work. > > Cheers, > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe