Re: [Haskell-cafe] non-hackage cabal repos? unpacking non-repo package tarballs?

2010-12-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote: I often find myself writing example code that I'd like to distribute via cabal, but without further burdening hackage with not generally useful packages. 1. The simplest approach would be if cabal could expose its

[Haskell-cafe] non-hackage cabal repos? unpacking non-repo package tarballs?

2010-11-02 Thread Claus Reinke
I often find myself writing example code that I'd like to distribute via cabal, but without further burdening hackage with not generally useful packages. 1. The simplest approach would be if cabal could expose its internal 'unpackPackage' as a command, so that author: cabal sdist user:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] non-hackage cabal repos? unpacking non-repo package tarballs?

2010-11-02 Thread Christopher Done
On 2 November 2010 19:02, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote: 1. The simplest approach would be if cabal could expose its internal 'unpackPackage' as a command, so that   author: cabal sdist   user: cabal unpackPackage Example.tar.gz [...] 2. Failing that, I remembered that cabal