Antoine Latter wrote:
Personally, I've never used "runhaskell Setup sdist" and I've only
ever used "cabal sdist". But I'm not sure where I learned that.
I think cabal-install is a pretty standard util for people to have,
and it ships with the Haskell platform now. So the big hurdle is
documentation.
Indeed. I've heard a few people claim that cabal-install is the best
thing since sliced bread, but I've never touched it. I don't even know
where to get it. (Presumably this will become fairly obvious once I go
look for it...)
Andrew - where does it state that "Setup sdist" is the recommended way
of doing this? If it's a wiki you could go and edit it yourself.
The link posted earlier:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Packaging#The_Cabal_file
I'm pretty sure there's some essentially similar content on the Haskell
wiki. (Or there was... I don't know if it got removed when this was put up.)
The Cabal manual itself mentions absolutely nothing about cabal-install,
as far as I can tell. (At least, I didn't see anything about it while I
was looking up the *.cabal format nor the command invocation syntax.)
It's news to me that cabal-install ships with the Haskell Platform. (Can
you tell how much I've tried out the Platform?) I'm still not completely
understanding the direction we're going with this - but that's for
another email...
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