On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:48 -0700, Isaac Jones wrote: > > 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?
Tar is easy to code, gzip is harder. Ian wrote some gunzip code in pure Haskell but I don't think there is a pure gzip Haskell compressor anywhere. I wrote some bindings to zlib, but then that needs the zlib C library of course. I don't think it's that over the top. If we intend to use .tar.gz as the cabal-install distribution format then windows users need to be able to decompress that. We could use some other format for which there is already a decompressor bundled with windows, eg .cab format. However generating that on non-windows machines is not easy. cabal-install is already one binary we'd be distributing, it's not that hard to bundle either zlib.dll or gzip.exe or tar.exe. > We could just not compress things, I guess, if it's pretty common to > have this older version of tar. As Neil said, Windows users don't have tar/gzip at all. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
