Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > Rationale: We need a CPAN > > We choose to spell CPAN as "Hackage" > > >, a cabal that is smart enough to know what to > > to, even if building depends on make > > Why should building depend on make? Shouldn't cabal build stuff for > us? We need a cabal that is clever enough that we don't need a make. > > >, grapefruit authors that commit > > to hackage > > Or someone to help show the grapefruit authors the light. I helped put > smallcheck on hackage, others have done other packages. Perhaps you > could do grapefruit? > > >, a cabal-inst that can install from darcs (or at least from > > a local directory) > > Yes, that would be lovely! > > >, or maybe just a make-replacement for haskell, like > > java has with ant (which is really cool if you successfully do not > > notice the xml-syntax). > > We have replaced a lot of make with just --make in GHC. Cabal replaces > more. What more bits of make do you need? If you can say why make is > still necessary, people may be able to eliminate it. > > Thanks > > Neil > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Hackage and Cabal are nice, but a command line tool for automatically searching Hackage and installing Hackage packages (like the cpan program, or easy_install) would be nice. Unless I haven't done my homework and this tool exists... Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe