[Haskell-beginners] Distributing executables

[Lyndon Maydwell]

No love for OS X?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Alp Mestan <alp at mestan.fr> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It could be a good extension to Cabal (not the tool), currently
>>> there's the target 'sdist', maybe add a target 'wininst'.  Similar to
>>> how Python's distutils have targets for MSI and Windows installers.
>>
>> Actually, I was more thinking about a separate tool. Something you'd just
>> install, from cabal/apt/pacman/whatever, using some external system tools to
>> check out dependencies of the application, then packaging everything and
>> putting some install.sh script around for linux, and a nice installer under
>> Windows, etc. It is just an idea, but the main point here is that it'd just
>> be "simple". (of course, the idea I describe may fail heavily for packaging
>> very complex and heavy apps, IMO, but I think there are workarounds)
>
> Linux ought to be simple, a script based on output from ldd would most
> likely do it.  Or even better, run prelink on the executable (I
> suspect it'd work, but I'm not sure).  Though for Linux I don't
> understand why anyone would do this, since it's so simple to put
> together distro packages :-)
>
> IMNSHO Windows is the only OS where it's useful to create binary
> installers.  There are quite a few tools out there for that, I'd
> expect most of them would be suitable for Haskell binaries.
>
> /M
>
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