A bit late, sorry, but you could use this: http://www.wellquite.org/hinstaller/
On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Dave Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best way to embed an arbitrary file in a Haskell program? > > I would like to use GHC to compile command-line tools to be used with > OS X. I want the tool to be a single file, not a package or a > directory, that makes no assumptions about what else is present. For > example, it should be able to run as part of an OS X install disk. > > I want this tool to be "self reproducing" in the sense that one of its > options causes it to output its own documentation and source code. I > want this data to be stored as a compressed file within the tool > binary itself. > > The distribution model I'm imagining here is where one writes a > program anonymously, that isn't hosted anywhere but is passed from > user to user because it is useful, and eventually reaches another user > who wants to modify the code. Assume that intermediate users will care > less about this, and will try to delete anything that they can. That > rules out storing the data in a separate file. Think of the M.I.T. > game "Core Wars" from the dawn of the computer age. I'm looking for a > strategy here that will be evolutionarily successful in a fairly > hostile environment. > > In other words, I want to be able to write in Haskell, without losing > the automatic distribution of source code enjoyed by interpreted > languages. No one deletes the source code for a Perl script, because > by doing so they're killing the program. > > There must be some library I'm overlooking that would make this very > easy. All I can think of is to use Template Haskell to read a > compressed tar file into a Haskell variable. Is that what one does, or > is there a better way? > > Thanks in advance, > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe