installing non-haskell binaries with cabal

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 11 06:08:51 EDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:37 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:22 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > gwern0:
> > > And of course, at that point, you'd be better off just writing the
> > script in Haskell.
> > > 
> > > (Seriously, I had to do that for the Roguestar packages. It was
> > hardly
> > > any trouble at all - Haskell is a better scripting language than I
> > > think people give it credit for.)
> > 
> > I'd agree here. It probably is easier to rewrite it in Haskell (just
> > use system everywhere), and keep easy distribution via cabal-install.
> 
> Yikes.  Every time I learn something new about Cabal, it's /always/ some
> new limitation, never a new feature.  Are there any plans to someday
> permit doing things with Cabal the Cabal developers haven't added
> specific code for yet?

All these things are already possible (if not easy) using custom code in
the Setup.hs script and/or using a ./configure script.

Duncan



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