cabal2nix: Convert Cabal files into Nix build instructions

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The cabal2nix utility converts Cabal files into Nix build instructions. The commandline syntax is:

Usage: cabal2nix [options] url-to-cabal-file
  -h             --help                   show this help text
                 --sha256=HASH            sha256 hash of source tarball
  -m MAINTAINER  --maintainer=MAINTAINER  maintainer of this package (may be specified multiple times)
  -p PLATFORM    --platform=PLATFORM      supported build platforms (may be specified multiple times)

Recognized URI schemes:

  cabal://pkgname-pkgversion       download the specified package from Hackage
  http://host/path                 fetch the Cabel file via HTTP
  file:///local/path               load the Cabal file from the local disk
  /local/path                      abbreviated version of file URI

The only required argument is the path to the cabal file. For example:

cabal2nix http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cabal2nix/1.9/cabal2nix.cabal
cabal2nix cabal://cabal2nix-1.9

If the --sha256 option has not been specified, cabal2nix calls nix-prefetch-url to determine the hash automatically. This causes network traffic, obviously.

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Dependencies base (>=3 && <5), Cabal (>=1.8), containers, directory, filepath, HTTP, mtl, pretty, process, regex-posix [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) 2011 Peter Simons and Andres Loeh
Author Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>, Andres Loeh <mail@andres-loeh.de>
Maintainer Nix Developers <nix-dev@cs.uu.nl>
Category Distribution
Home page http://github.com/haskell4nix/cabal2nix
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/haskell4nix/cabal2nix.git
Uploaded by PeterSimons at 2011-08-14T10:01:00Z
Distributions LTSHaskell:2.19.1, NixOS:2.19.1, Stackage:2.19.1
Reverse Dependencies 4 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables hackage4nix, cabal2nix
Downloads 96277 total (172 in the last 30 days)
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