On Nov 22, 2007, at 14:22 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
My first question would be:
- Is there a viable alternative to sh scripts for installing packages?
If there is, it would seem it's just an issue of getting everybody
to migrate to it. If there isn't, it looks like we need to make one...
ActiveState Perl?
Unfortunately, as long as you can't guarantee everything being
installed in consistent places and/or invoked in consistent ways
(which on Windows is well-nigh impossible due to conflicting version
requirements) you need a way to search the system for stuff. If you
don't want to require that people on Windows have a reasonable
scripting language installed for such, you get to bundle (or write) one.
It would be nice if Windows devs had come up with something like pkg-
config; it'd be possible to do a minimal implementation just using
CMD.EXE scripts (don't bother with the full GNU pkg-config framework,
just have each package bundle a %foo%-CONFIG.CMD that dumps
locations, compiler flags, etc. in an easily parsed form) and then a
relatively simple Haskell module could check for packages by running
their config scripts. But this requires convincing all the non-
Haskell third party libraries (GLUT, SDL, etc.) to add config scripts
to their distributions; practically, I don't see this happening.
--
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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