Bringing Otakar back in on the discussion. Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 23:15 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: >> Hi >> >> > -- line 133 replaced with these two system calls >> > >> > system $ unwords ["tar -C", tmpDir, "-cf", >> > tarBallFilePath, nameVersion pkg_descr] >> > system $ unwords ["gzip -9", tarBallFilePath] > > So the version of tar there is too old to understand the -z flag? > >> What was the original line here? And why are tar and gzip being used, >> when a much more "windows" thing to do would be to create a .zip file >> - although I guess thats not what people want. > > We'd still need a .zip file reader. > > I would suggest we ship zlib.dll on windows, and not use external tar or > gzip programs, but then of course we run into the problem that there's > nowhere to put the .dll that will work (unless someone can figure out > how to use isolated .dlls and manifests and all that). > > So perhaps including a recent tar prog (that understands -z) would be > the way forward. We'd need this for cabal-install in future, it's not > just sdist. Do you mean just include it for windows? Including tar with cabal seems a bit over the top... Is there a pure Haskell tar or gzip or zip? We could just not compress things, I guess, if it's pretty common to have this older version of tar. peace, isaac _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
