lists: > Hi folks, > > I've got an application to release. I'm releasing the source, but I also > wanted > to release binary versions for people that don't have GHC. I developed on > Windows, so making a Windows executable was simple. I also have access to an > Ubuntu Linux box, on which I can easily build and test my app. > > But, I'm a bit confused about how to release binaries for Linux. It's not so > simple as on Windows. Or, maybe it is but I don't know it. What do people > recommend as a way of distributing Linux binaries? I tried to make a Debian > package and couldn't figure it out, but maybe that's overkill. GHC itself has > some kind of tarball for the binary distributions, one for Debian and one for > Red Hat. How would I make such a package and what would go into it? There's > only one executable, so it shouldn't be too complicated.
You could make a .cabal package for it, and use that to construct a binary tar.gz bundle that's installable. Duncan, is there a cabal binary-dist? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
