Cool C libraries we could have on hackage server

[Magnus Therning]

If I were involved in the development of cabal (the tool) then I'd be
resisting the slippery slope towards becoming a general package
manager.  The line should be drawn somewhere, and I personally think
that cabal (the tool) should _only_ be concerned with building Haskell
packages, if a Haskell package depends on a C library then that
library has to be installed prior to the invocation of cabal (the
tool), and in a manner that fits the user's system (e.g. using apt-get
on Debian).

Just my 2p...

/M

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Maurí­cio<briqueabraque at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just submitted bindings to libusb, and realized I should
> comment pkgconfig-depends in .cabal since libusb-1.0 is not
> installed on the server, or cabal would refuse building it.
>
> There are many libraries we probably would like to have bindings
> for, but we need to have them on hackage to do that. What if we
> generate a wish list of really trusted and important libraries
> we would like to use, and then test if they build on hackage,
> and install in /usr/local those that do?
>
> I have a few sugestions:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl
>
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5
>
> http://libusb.sourceforge.net
>
> http://sourceware.org/libffi
>
> http://directory.fsf.org/project/mailutils
>
> Best,
> Maurício
>
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