Re: cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-05 Thread Ketil Malde
Claus Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. there are no systems where packages just work! there are systems where a few people ensure that many people can live in such an illusion, though. Exactly. Integrating Cabal packages into the system package manager is still non-trivial, and a

cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-04 Thread Claus Reinke
I think that's fundamentally the wrong approach. We shouldn't have to build a Haskell installation manager. Would you also want installation managers for Perl, Python, Ruby, C, C++, etc. each with their own different user interfaces and feature sets? I think not - you want a single package

Re: cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 15:14 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: I think that's fundamentally the wrong approach. We shouldn't have to build a Haskell installation manager. Would you also want installation managers for Perl, Python, Ruby, C, C++, etc. each with their own different user

Re: cabal and platform-independent haskell installation management (again) (Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Ubuntu and ghc)

2008-06-04 Thread Darrin Thompson
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Claus Reinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - it isn't sufficient to worry about installation management, one has to worry about integration, lifetime and uninstall management as well. in short, maintain the dependency graphs over any of