Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I fully appreciate this packaging stuff is sometimes frustrating. I > hope you appreciate that it is actually improving. > I already was pleasantly surprised when discovering cabal-install, I think it deserves some more prominence, or even integration into cabal itself, to make everyone aware of the fact that there's such a thing as automatic installation and tempt people to make it work.
CPAN, of course, makes its life a lot easier by not caring about outside dependencies at all: You can install GTK bindings without having GTK installed... which of course does not work with Haskell, as things must be linked properly. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
