[Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Diego Souza wrote:

> Hi,
> currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then install
> generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful to have
> pre-compiled binaries as many package managers usually do (e.g. apt). I
> often think that would save some time on the expense of a busier hackage
> server capable of generating packages for many different platforms.

There is cabal-rpm
   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-rpm