[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Add Cabal files (not feature complete).

Zachary P. Landau kapheine at divineinvasion.net
Mon Apr 9 10:09:15 PDT 2007


> Why Cabalisation?  I'm not too sure.  It does make it easy to
>  - express package dependencies (e.g., mtl, parsec, QuickCheck)
>  - expose a few modules and create a libdarcs
>      In fact, we might consider having two cabal files: one for libdarcs
>      and the other for darcs proper; might make the install process a
>      bit more complicated, however)

It's always nice to have programs using a standard packaging mechanism.
I think this is a good idea.  It might help package managers for Linux
distributions, as well (although by now most of the major ones have
already made a package for darcs).

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine at divineinvasion.net>
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