zooko: > On Nov 8, 2008, at 13:39 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > > >Yes, the distros can take great care with unix packages, but we may > >need > >to find dedicated maintainers for producing windows .exe and > >installable > >mac images, as ghc does. > > I think such things should be automated. I dislike the tradition of > having a manual-labor-intensive step in the process of converting the > latest source code in the repository into a package for a platform. > > I'm willing to help out with the project of automating the production > of platform-specific packages. Are there any tools in Haskell world > which are well suited to this purpose? (In Python world, there are > tools which start with the Python equivalent of a cabal file and a > source tree and go on to produce a .deb or a .msi.)
Yes. Arch Linux, for example, uses the cabal2arch tool to automatically convert .cabal files into native packages (and the result is we can maintain 800 Haskell packages for Arch). There are similar tools for several other distros. -- Don _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
