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Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of CabalInstall

v5	v6
1		= Cabal Install (and friends) =
2		[[PageOutline]]
	1	= Cabal Install =
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4		== Proposal ==
5		See [ticket:65 the layered tool reorganization] for the proposal of how to implement these possible layers.
	3	`cabal-install` is tool for installing multiple cabal packages, including downloading packages from [wiki:HackageDB] and determining the dependencies among packages.
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7		== Prototype Tool ==
8		The darcs version of cabal comes with [source:cabal-install/CabalInstall.hs a prototype of cabal-install]. Try it out!
	5	This tool is in development.
	6	The most recent version is available from this darcs repository:
	7	* [http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-with-install]
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10		== Possible Layers ==
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12		=== Setup.lhs / .cabal ===
13		* configure, build, and install commands, etc. (as now)
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15		=== cabal-setup (or whatever) ===
16		* Compiles / interprets the setup script
17		* Finds the right version of cabal (based on .cabal file)
18		* same CLI as Setup
19
20		=== cabal-install ===
21		* installs multiple packages in dependency order
22		* unpacks tarballs, etc
23		* {{{cabal-install --user --prefix=$HOME/usr foo/foo.cabal bar.tgz}}} (where bar depends on foo)
24
25		=== cabal-get ===
26		* {{{cabal-get install foo-1.1}}}
27		* downloads and installs foo and its dependencies
28		* network client
29		* gpg client
	9	(Its predecessor, [wiki:CabalGetBootstrap cabal-get], is now defunct.)