[gentoo-dev] new eclass: haskell-cabal

[gentoo-dev] new eclass: haskell-cabal

[Andres Loeh]

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Hi there.

The Haskell team has created a new eclass. It makes building Haskell
packages that conform to the Cabal [1] architecture (an effort that
aims at easing packaging and distribution of both Haskell libraries
and tools) nearly trivial. I wish to use the opportunity to thank
Lennart Kolmodin and Henning Günther, who aren't Gentoo developers,
but have had significant part in the design and development of the
eclass.

The eclass has been developed and tested in the inofficial
gentoo-haskell darcs [2] overlay [3], where the code is available for
inspection [4].

We plan to include the eclass in the main portage tree later
this week.

The overlay currently also contains ~10 packages using the
eclass. These will be added to the tree shortly after the inclusion of
the eclass. More packages using the eclass are likely to follow.

Cheers,
  Andres (kosmikus)

[1] http://haskell.org/cabal/
[2] http://darcs.net/
[3] http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/
[4] http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/portage/eclass/haskell-cabal.eclass

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