Hello Rob, On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Rob Hoelz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > Rationale: We need a CPAN > > > > We choose to spell CPAN as "Hackage" > > > > >, a cabal that is smart enough to know what to > > > to, even if building depends on make > > > > Why should building depend on make? Shouldn't cabal build stuff for > > us? We need a cabal that is clever enough that we don't need a make. > > > > >, grapefruit authors that commit > > > to hackage > > > > Or someone to help show the grapefruit authors the light. I helped put > > smallcheck on hackage, others have done other packages. Perhaps you > > could do grapefruit? > > > > >, a cabal-inst that can install from darcs (or at least from > > > a local directory) > > > > Yes, that would be lovely! > > > > >, or maybe just a make-replacement for haskell, like > > > java has with ant (which is really cool if you successfully do not > > > notice the xml-syntax). > > > > We have replaced a lot of make with just --make in GHC. Cabal replaces > > more. What more bits of make do you need? If you can say why make is > > still necessary, people may be able to eliminate it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Neil > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > Hackage and Cabal are nice, but a command line tool for automatically > searching Hackage and installing Hackage packages (like the cpan > program, or easy_install) would be nice. Unless I haven't done my > homework and this tool exists... > > Thanks, > Rob > Try this: cabal update cabal list <pattern> cabal install For example, cabal update -- updates your list of packages cabal list xml -- searches the list of packages matching the pattern xml cabal install HaXml -- will download and install the package. Is that what you were wanting? :) __ Donnie
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