> 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...
>
This tool exists. It is called 'cabal-install'. To try out one of
today's new packages:
$ cabal update
Downloading package list from server
'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive'
$ cabal install category-extras
Downloading 'category-extras-0.52.1'...
Configuring category-extras-0.52.1...
Preprocessing library category-extras-0.52.1...
Building category-extras-0.52.1...
/usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHScategory-extras-0.52.1.a
Installing: /home/dons/.cabal/lib/category-extras-0.52.1/ghc-6.8.2
Registering category-extras-0.52.1...
Done.
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