Still on the topic of reducing installation dependencies: are self-contained binaries in the style of pandoc [1] doable for gitit and other Haskell packages as well? This could be an interesting way to address the issue.
> It is possible to compile pandoc such that the data files pandoc uses > are embedded in the binary. (The executables in the binary are built > this way.) The resulting binary can be run from any directory and is > completely self-contained. > > cabal update > cabal install hsb2hs > cabal install --flags="embed_data_files" pandoc pandoc-citeproc [1] http://pandoc.org/installing.html#creating-a-relocatable-binary _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list arch-haskell@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell