On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 01:42 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:32:36PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Since my last attempt to add RPM support didn't go anywhere, I'd like to > > figure out what's a good way to make progress. > > > > If I were to contribute a standalone program called cabal-rpm (just as > > cabal-install is a standalone program), would that be acceptable to add > > to the darcs repo? > > I keep meaning to speak to Duncan about whether we can put cabal-install > (and any others) into its own repo. Duncan? > > The current source arrangement is a little odd, and I think Simon > Marlow, Duncan and I agreed that cabal-install shouldn't come with a > minimal GHC (as it would pull in things like HTTP, FTP, SSL, ... > libraries, either now or in the future) while a minimal GHC has to > include Cabal.
Right, so long as when clueless people/students download ghc it has all that they need to get going with installing things from hackage then it's all ok. So if that means a slightly fatter ghc bindist that includes Cabal + cabal-install then yeah fine. As you say, distros can sort themselves out and have minimal ghc and cabal-install as separate packages. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
