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cabal-install: Automatic package handling for Haskell

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apt-get like tool for Haskell. The 'cabal' command-line program simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs.

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Automatic Flags
NameDescriptionDefault
old-base

Old, monolithic base

Disabled
bytestring-in-baseEnabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Dependencies base (<2.2 || >=3.0), bytestring (>=0.9), Cabal (>=1.2), directory, filepath (>=1.0), HTTP (>=3000.0 && <3001.1), network, pretty, process, zlib (>=0.3) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2005 Lemmih <lemmih@gmail.com>, 2006 Paolo Martini <paolo@nemail.it>
Author Lemmih <lemmih@gmail.com>, Paolo Martini <paolo@nemail.it>
Maintainer cabal-devel@haskell.org
Category Distribution
Uploaded by DuncanCoutts at 2007-10-21T17:53:57Z
Distributions Arch:3.6.2.0, Debian:3.0.0.0, Fedora:3.8.1.0, FreeBSD:1.22.6.0, LTSHaskell:3.10.2.1, NixOS:3.10.3.0, Stackage:3.10.3.0, openSUSE:3.10.2.1
Reverse Dependencies 3 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables cabal
Downloads 256873 total (566 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for cabal-install-0.4.0

[back to package description] 
== cabal install ==

The automatic package manager for Haskell!

Intended usage:

    cabal install xmonad

Just works. Defaults make sense, and by default we don't fail unless it
is unrecoverable.

== Dependences ==

   base >= 2.1, process, directory, pretty, bytestring >= 0.9
   mtl, network, regex-compat, unix, Cabal>=1.3,
   zlib >= 0.4, HTTP >= 3000.0 && < 3000.1, filepath >= 1.0

Kind of ironic we need cabal install to make it easier to build cabal
install. 

== Developer docs ==

    CabalInstall, what happens under the hood.

  FetchCmd:
    cabal-install stores packages in [config-dir]/packages/ by their package id.
    This can lead to clashes if there's two identical (same name, same version)
    packages from two servers with different functionality.
  CleanCmd:
    Removes all fetched packages.
  UpdateCmd:
    Queries all known servers for their packages and stores it in [cfg-dir]/pkg.list.
  InstallCmd:
    Installed packages are determined, and dependencies of the to-be-installed packages
    are resolved and fetched.
    The fetched tarballs are moved to a temporary directory (usually /tmp) and extracted.
    Distribution.Simple.SetupWrapper is used to configure, build and install the
    unpacked package. The user can
    only pass arguments to the 'configure' phase of the installation. '--user' is used
    by default.
  InfoCmd:
    To be written.

  Files used by cabal-install:
    [cfg-dir]/config        configuration file
    [cfg-dir]/00-index.tar         list of packages available from the servers.
    [cfg-dir]/packages/        directory containing all fetched packages.