Re: [Haskell-cafe] packaging a cgi binary using cabal
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 22.09.2010, 15:53 +0100 schrieb Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos: I wrote a simple interactive tableaux theorem prover as a cgi in Haskell (http://www.ncc.up.pt/~pbv/cgi/tableaux.cgi) and would like to submit to hackage but need some advice on how to package it using cabal. In particular, the binary, CSS and bitmap files need to be installed under the web server directory (public_html or alike) rather than system or user directories. Any thoughts on how to do this? In case of such research programs, where ease of installability is usually more important than performance, I just include the data files into the program. For example, in http://darcs.nomeata.de/sem_syn/ the JQuery library and the file BUtils.hs are turned into Haskell string literals using http://github.com/jgm/hsb2hs This way, the resulting binary is really stand-alone and can be just moved to the appropriate place on the web server. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner mail: m...@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] packaging a cgi binary using cabal
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 11:19 +0100 schrieb Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:44:17 +0200 Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: In case of such research programs, where ease of installability is usually more important than performance, I just include the data files into the program. For example, in http://darcs.nomeata.de/sem_syn/ the JQuery library and the file BUtils.hs are turned into Haskell string literals using http://github.com/jgm/hsb2hs This way, the resulting binary is really stand-alone and can be just moved to the appropriate place on the web server. OK, thanks for the suggestion. For my needs I think this will be very straightforward to do manually --- the CSS and image files a pretty short anyway. for CSS, this is what I’m doing as well... but for binary image data? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner mail: m...@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] packaging a cgi binary using cabal
Well, if you want you might use images inline as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Advantages From my experience, this is supported by all major browser, including IE. Regards, ~dsouza On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.dewrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 23.09.2010, 11:19 +0100 schrieb Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:44:17 +0200 Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: In case of such research programs, where ease of installability is usually more important than performance, I just include the data files into the program. For example, in http://darcs.nomeata.de/sem_syn/ the JQuery library and the file BUtils.hs are turned into Haskell string literals using http://github.com/jgm/hsb2hs This way, the resulting binary is really stand-alone and can be just moved to the appropriate place on the web server. OK, thanks for the suggestion. For my needs I think this will be very straightforward to do manually --- the CSS and image files a pretty short anyway. for CSS, this is what I’m doing as well... but for binary image data? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner mail: m...@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nome...@debian.org ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- ~dsouza yahoo!im: paravinicius gpg key fingerprint: 71B8 CE21 3A6E F894 5B1B 9ECE F88E 067F E891 651E gpg pub key: http://bitforest.org/~dsouza/pub/gpg-pubkey.txt authorized_keys: http://bitforest.org/~dsouza/pub/authorized_keys.txt ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] packaging a cgi binary using cabal
Hello list, Thanks for all suggestions. If you're interested, I've uploaded a first version of the theorem prover to hackagedb (tableaux-0.1). Best regards, Pedro ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] packaging a cgi binary using cabal
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Pedro Baltazar Vasconcelos p...@dcc.fc.up.pt wrote: I wrote a simple interactive tableaux theorem prover as a cgi in Haskell (http://www.ncc.up.pt/~pbv/cgi/tableaux.cgi) and would like to submit to hackage but need some advice on how to package it using cabal. In particular, the binary, CSS and bitmap files need to be installed under the web server directory (public_html or alike) rather than system or user directories. Any thoughts on how to do this? You could probably use a post-install (postInst) user hook to do it, but that can get a little hairy. (I'm not certain what modules you can reasonably use from code invoked via Setup.hs, and you'll have to worry about tracking down/detecting/creating a public_html directory) To use user hooks with cabal-install, you will also have to set the build-type to Custom. The list of user hooks is here: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.8.0.6/doc/html/Distribution-Simple-UserHooks.html Ed Yang has a blog post that discusses using user hooks to do relatively complex build tasks. While the context and objective are a bit different, his examples may help to understand the syntax and interactions between the cabal file and Setup.hs: http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/06/setting-up-cabal-the-ffi-and-c2hs/ --Rogan Regards, Pedro Vasconcelos ___ 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
