Hackage Tool Suite and Related Tools

• Cabal Web Page
• HackageDB web page
• CabalPut?
• CabalGetBootstrap?
• CabalInstall - a prototype tool for ease of installing cabal packages
• dh_haskell
• cabal2rpm
• Visual Studio

Proposal

See the layered tool reorganization for the proposal of how to implement these possible layers.

Possible Layers

Setup.lhs / .cabal

• configure, build, and install commands, etc. (as now)

cabal-setup (or whatever)

• Compiles / interprets the setup script
• Finds the right version of cabal (based on .cabal file)
• same CLI as Setup

cabal-install

• installs multiple packages in dependency order
• unpacks tarballs, etc
• cabal-install --user --prefix=$HOME/usr foo/foo.cabal bar.tgz (where bar depends on foo)

cabal-get

• cabal-get install foo-1.1
• downloads and installs foo and its dependencies
• network client
• gpg client