One-click Hackage

[Don Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello Haskell,
> 
> it's well-known that large class of users (including haskell
> developers) prefer to use visual tools. for hackage/cabal-install this
> means that they need a GUI that allow them to find libs they need and
> install them. this mean some sort of GUI frontend to cabal-install,
> that isn't yet written. but we can go other way
> 
> now Hackage web site by itself provides good enough GUI for library
> search. the only problem is that after finding something useful, user
> needs to type in "cabal install Foo" in her cmdline - and that's in
> the best case when she know about cabal-install and had it installed
> 
> i think that we are just one click away of full GUI support - all
> that's reuired is to publish on Hackage page for Foo library file
> Foo.hackage and associate this extension with Cabal. by clicking on
> such file user will auto download it, and then cabal will read name of
> package to installed from the file
> 
> going further, Hackage may provide links to execution of "cabal
> update" and other commands, becoming sort of GUI for cabal-install.
> this may be provided as files with the same hackage extension

If you set this up, could you publish it to the list -- sounds like a
very cool idea.

-- Don