modules of cabal-install

[Antoine Latter]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Christian Maeder
<Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to reuse the module Distribution.Client.Tar
> from the cabal-install package.
>
> Are you willing to split up your package? Is it worth to have single
> module packages?
>
> Currently, Distribution.Client.Tar depends on
> Distribution.Client.Utils.writeFileAtomic, but this final call could be
> left to the user. Maybe writeFileAtomic should be in another package, too?
>

There's a 'tar' package on Hackage:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tar

I've had good lusck using it before, but I'm not sure how it's
different from what cabal-install uses.

Antoine