Dear Ahmed, I unfortunately do not have direct experience with making Debian packages. Let me reply item-by-item below, hopefully it will make sense and help you :)
> * The Haskel tarball, is it a Haskel program or library ? The Haskell tarball is a standard Haskell package which is best installed using the Cabal framework. There is a dependency on the Encode library, see below. The tarball contains sources for both the library code and the source for the executable. During installation, the dependencies are downloaded from the Hackage repository, the library is compiled, the executable is compiled, and all is installed where expected on the particular system. All can be done with one command, namely `cabal install`. Please see this if needed: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ > * The Perl module, does it depend on Haskel program/library ? The Perl module does not depend on the Haskell library. You can use it independently. However, there is a module called Exec::ElixirFM in the package which you can use to invoke the `elixir` executable compiled from the Haskell source. If you do not have this executable installed in your path, then Exec::ElixirFM will warn you at runtime, and will return empty strings as results, instead of some reasonable output that `elixir` would produce if it were correctly installed. > * Another thing, I see that you require Encode, yet the only Encode > I found on sourceforge, was ElixirFM-Encode-1.0.zip which has both > ElixirFM (probably an old version) and Encode, can't you have > Encode in a separate tarball/zip archive ? The Encode Haskell library is a dependency for the ElixirFM Haskell library. Normally, Encode is downloaded from the Hackage repository. At the moment, there is Encode version 1.2 on Hackage. However, there is another place where I publish this library. It is the Encode Arabic project of SourceForge, and it contains version 1.3 now. If you would like to include Encode 1.3, please download Encode-1.3.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net/projects/encode-arabic/files/ You can then install it using `cabal install` again. Hope this helps :) Please let me know if you have more questions. Best regards, Otakar _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
