On Jun 4, 2010, at 06:54 , Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Don Stewart <[email protected]> writes:However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file).Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum?I don't know how it is in Arch, but for Gentoo we need to do a lot of QA'ing to make sure our ebuilds generated with hackport work properly (which is one reason why we don't churn ebuilds out as fast as yougenerate PKBUILDs). Part of the problem is probably that hackport isn't as polished as cabal2arch, but a few other concerns we need to take careof are:
I don't think anyone just does a conversion and bodges it into the package system, regardless of distribution, package system, or conversion tool. (Or language; you don't do it with gems, eggs, or CPAN packages either.) The tool does the boring part of the job for you, but of course you want to edit metadata, test, etc. before setting it loose. Release engineering is not optional.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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