[Haskell-cafe] Distributing Linux binaries

[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 build and test my app.
> 
> But, I'm a bit confused about how to release binaries for Linux. It's not so
> simple as on Windows. Or, maybe it is but I don't know it. What do people
> recommend as a way of distributing Linux binaries? I tried to make a Debian
> package and couldn't figure it out, but maybe that's overkill. GHC itself has
> some kind of tarball for the binary distributions, one for Debian and one for
> Red Hat. How would I make such a package and what would go into it? There's
> only one executable, so it shouldn't be too complicated.

You could make a .cabal package for it, and use that to construct a
binary tar.gz bundle that's installable.

Duncan, is there a cabal binary-dist?

-- Don