Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-03-01 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Diego Souza wrote: Hi, currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then install generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful to have pre-compiled binaries as many package managers usually do (e.g. apt). I often think that would save some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-02-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 23:20:00 schrieb Ivan Miljenovic: > /me really wishes people stopped thinking of Cabal as a package manager /me really wishes there were package managers as useful and easy as Cabal for things other than Haskell :D ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-02-28 Thread Ivan Miljenovic
On 28 February 2010 01:55, Diego Souza wrote: > currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then install > generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful to have > pre-compiled binaries as many package managers usually do (e.g. apt). I > often think that would sav

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-02-27 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 27 Februar 2010 16:39:27 schrieb Andrew Coppin: > Diego Souza wrote: > > Hi, > > > > currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then > > install generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful > > to have pre-compiled binaries as many package managers us

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-02-27 Thread Andrew Coppin
Diego Souza wrote: Hi, currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then install generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful to have pre-compiled binaries as many package managers usually do (e.g. apt). I often think that would save some time on the expense

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal pre-compiled packages

2010-02-27 Thread Diego Souza
Hi, currently when one install a cabal package it compiles it and then install generated binaries. I wonder whether or not it would be useful to have pre-compiled binaries as many package managers usually do (e.g. apt). I often think that would save some time on the expense of a busier hackage ser