On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 13:26 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > 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?
No. If we want it then someone needs to look at this ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/47 What you can do however is use cabal to make an install image (cabal copy --destdir=) and then write your own install script or make a deb or rpm or whatever. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
