[Haskell-cafe] Damnit, we need a CPAN.

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> Rationale: We need a CPAN

We choose to spell CPAN as "Hackage"

>, a cabal that is smart enough to know what to
> to, even if building depends on make

Why should building depend on make? Shouldn't cabal build stuff for
us? We need a cabal that is clever enough that we don't need a make.

>, grapefruit authors that commit
> to hackage

Or someone to help show the grapefruit authors the light. I helped put
smallcheck on hackage, others have done other packages. Perhaps you
could do grapefruit?

>, a cabal-inst that can install from darcs (or at least from
> a local directory)

Yes, that would be lovely!

>, or maybe just a make-replacement for haskell, like
> java has with ant (which is really cool if you successfully do not
> notice the xml-syntax).

We have replaced a lot of make with just --make in GHC. Cabal replaces
more. What more bits of make do you need? If you can say why make is
still necessary, people may be able to eliminate it.

Thanks

Neil