Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-12 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
Thanks, folks. I have decided for now just to release a tarball with an executable and some docs, that can be expanded where the user deems appropriate. I'll try a static link if people are having problems with it. - Lyle ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-11 Thread Ketil Malde
Lyle Kopnicky li...@qseep.net writes: I tried to make a Debian package and couldn't figure it out, Me too. I don't know why .debs are so hard to get right, most if not all the necessary information should be in the .cabal file. Maybe I'm overly naive here. but maybe that's overkill. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-10 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
Thanks folks for your replies. I did learn, from your e-mails and from the cabal documentation (example 9 on page http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/builders.htm), how to build a tarball with an executable and LICENSE file, via cabal copy. It would have been nice to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-10 Thread Don Stewart
If it is a hurdle for me, I can imagine a lot of people are getting frustrated at trying to distribute their binaries on Linux. Yes. This is not a new observation :) -- Don ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-09 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-09 Thread Don Stewart
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-09 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Monday 09 March 2009 01:26:37 pm 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

2009-03-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
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