Don Stewart wrote: > mle+cl: >> Don Stewart wrote: >> >>> Well, the number one thing is to use Cabal and the cabal-install tool. >>> That is the simplest way to avoid headaches. >> I'm sure cabal works very well for many people, but for anyone who >> has used Debian based distributions for some time, cabal really >> does seem like a backward step. >> >> For instance, I regularly develop on 6 machines; personal laptop, >> home desktop, 2 work desktops and 2 work build machines. >> >> At work, the main output of my development work is Debian packages >> (which get installed on hundreds of machines), and the Debian packages >> I create have build depends on whatever compilers and libraries are >> required to build them. We also have a build bot that runs nightly >> in a clean chroot for each package so that build depends can be >> verified to be correct. >> >> However, if I install compilers or libraries using cabal there is >> no package to build depend on, breaking a system which currently >> works very, very well for all the code we build in C, C++ and >> Ocaml. > > I encourage *strongly* the Debian community to package up hackage > packages natively, as we have done on Gentoo and Arch. > > (This can be automated, in fact, see cabal2arch). > > cabal-install will work on any system. If you have particular distro > requirements, consider distro-specific package tools.
Get on the debian-haskell list to discuss this! I've looked into it myself, but got stuck on a severely outdated haddock package. That won't be fixed until GHC 6.10 makes it into experimental or unstable :-( /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus Haskell is an even 'redder' pill than Lisp or Scheme. -- PaulPotts
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