I've been playing a lot with searchpath lately, for doing happs "quickstart" installation as described on happs.org.
Searchpath works great when it works, which usually means -- when the module map file is up to date and pointing everywhere to the right place. When the module map file is out of date though, the error messages for missing dependencies that you would get from searchpath are not as good as the error messages you'd get from a cabal configure. Case in point, from #happs irc chat today 18:09:44 <thomahartman1> ~/MyProject>sp ghc -isrc src/Main.hs --make --run .... 18:10:16 <Lemmih> ? 18:10:19 <thomahartman1> /home/thartman/.SearchPath/HAppS/State/Spread.hs:18:17: 18:10:20 <thomahartman1> Could not find module `Control.Concurrent.Chan.Closeable': 18:10:20 <thomahartman1> Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. 18:10:30 <thomahartman1> something need to be pushed? 18:10:30 <Lemmih> Install hspread. 18:11:06 <Lemmih> Cabal tells you these sorts of things. 18:11:19 <Lemmih> sp doesn't really keep track of dependencies. thomas. 2008/5/29 Darrin Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>, a cabal-inst that can install from darcs (or at least from >>> a local directory) >> >> Yes, that would be lovely! >> > > While we're on the subject, why does searchpath get as little > attention as it does? It seems to work reasonably well for HAppS. > > -- > Darrin > _______________________________________________ > 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
