On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:22:54 +0900, Benjamin L. Russell <dekudekup...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:38:15 -0500, Gregory Collins ><g...@gregorycollins.net> wrote: > >>[...] >> >>The tool that takes cabal libraries and builds OSX packages is called >>cabal2macpkg (http://github.com/gregorycollins/cabal2macpkg) -- a while >>back I had a version that generated Tiger-format installers, because the >>Tiger-era installer packages are a lot simpler to understand and build. >>(and Apple's command-line tools actually work!) >> >>I had to scrap that plan because the installer system wouldn't let me >>bundle a Tiger-format package and a Leopard-format package (i.e. the >>GHC binary installation package) together into the same package. The >>code could be rescued & cleaned up from the version control history but >>I don't have a Tiger machine (or a PPC) so someone else would have to >>pick up that ball in order to build Haskell Platform binaries for Tiger >>or for PPC machines, sorry. > >Well, since I'm right in the middle of replacing my faulty RAM and >reinstalling my OS, it is possible for me to install Tiger instead of >Leopard (at least until creating a PPC-compatible version of the >Haskell Platform), and my machine is a G4 PPC machine. > >If the process is simple enough and doesn't take too much time, I'd be >interested in helping out (once my new RAM arrives and I get enough of >a break from work to find enough time). What needs to be done in >order to create a Tiger-format installer, and how does the process >differ from creating a Leopard-format installer? Is there any >possibility that we could, perhaps, work together on this, and you >could, for example, tell me the details of exactly what commands need >to be executed (at least for those parts with which I am not familiar) >so that I could report the results of the execution back to you >(perhaps with screenshots, if necessary), thereby combining my PPC >machine with your knowledge and experience? That would seem the most >efficient way of creating this project in the least amount of time, >and then we could share credit for collaboration when posting the >package on Hackage, perhaps? My RAM arrived a while ago and I finished upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a PPC version of the latest version of the Haskell Platform for my platform, and I don't know enough about the details of the porting process to port the Haskell Platform to my platform. Ideally, I would like to find some way to install a binary version of the Haskell Platform that would automatically install the software, complete with a Haskell Platform logo alias, available from the Dock. If that is not possible, I would like to help create such a version. Is anybody available who could help out with this process in detailing the steps to port a PPC Leopard version? I have the machine; I just need the details of exactly what to do. Thanks, -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^ _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
