Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Tue Aug 4 08:47:06 EDT 2009
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:21:11PM +0200, Axel Simon wrote:
>
> My question: how important is cabalization for a package that wants to be
> part of the platform?
I think it's important. It means that:
* It can be built and installed in a regular way when creating the
binary platform installers, without needing special case code
* It can be built and installed in a regular way in Linux distros etc,
so it does not place an extra burden on distro maintainers trying to
support the platform
* The platform can be installed with just cabal-install (although you
will also need to install the C libraries etc)
* People who want to test newer versions that are intended to come with
a future platform release can easily do so
Thanks
Ian
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