[Haskell-cafe] Distributing a program with support files

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Yes, GHC itself has exactly this problem.  We use one method for Windows (the one you describe) and a different one entirely for Unix. This isn't a problem with Haskell; it's just that different OSs have different conventions.  Perhaps Cabal (or some library) could make it easy for us all to avoid re-inventing this wheel?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Neil
| Mitchell
| Sent: 27 May 2007 14:36
| To: Haskell Café
| Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing a program with support files
|
| Hi,
|
| I'm wanting to release a Haskell program, but am confused how I should
| distribute the associated files it needs. On Windows I would use the
| functions to find the path of the executable, and find the support
| files relative to that - in Haskell (because of Linux) that isn't the
| case.
|
| The basic setup I have is:
|
| foo.exe - main binary
| library.hs - required by the binary
| examples\*.hs - a massive tree of examples, which can be used by the binary
|
| foo.exe also needs to create temporary files relative to library.hs
| and the examples.
|
| Thanks
|
| Neil
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