On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:20 -0500, John Van Enk wrote: > This question isn't directly related to Haskell, but I figure some one > might know here. > > I want to deploy an application. I could either: > 1) Tell people how to download GHC, have them check out the > repository, have them install all the needed hackage packages, ... > or > 2) Give them a setup.msi/exe > > I'm curious if any one has done this with a Haskell package. It seems > that it's something that might make sense being integrated into Cabal > (runhaskell Setup msi).
I think the right approach here is as a separate tool, like we have tools for generating native packages for rpm, deb and other distributions. Of course it only makes sense for applications, not libraries. > Either way, has some one deployed a Haskell binary as a MSI package? Not MSI[1] but .exe yes. Here's an example: http://haskell.org/~duncan/gtk2hs/LSystemSetup.exe It is an installer (made with the free InnoSetup builder) for a simple graphical application that uses HOpenGL, Gtk2Hs and therefore Gtk+. It installs the application .exe the Gtk+ dll files and a data file for the GUI. Duncan [1] On a job many years ago I had to make an MSI installer and now hate them with a passion :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
