allbery: > On Jun 4, 2010, at 06:54 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: >> Don Stewart <[email protected]> writes: >>> However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro >>> tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux >>> knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file). >>> >>> Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum? >> >> I don't know how it is in Arch, but for Gentoo we need to do a lot of >> QA'ing to make sure our ebuilds generated with hackport work properly >> (which is one reason why we don't churn ebuilds out as fast as you >> generate PKBUILDs). Part of the problem is probably that hackport >> isn't >> as polished as cabal2arch, but a few other concerns we need to take >> care >> of are: > > > I don't think anyone just does a conversion and bodges it into the > package system, regardless of distribution, package system, or > conversion tool. (Or language; you don't do it with gems, eggs, or CPAN > packages either.) The tool does the boring part of the job for you, but > of course you want to edit metadata, test, etc. before setting it loose. > Release engineering is not optional. >
Build/does not build? That can be automated. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
