MacPorts and Homebrew

[Ben Gamari]

Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
>
>> Do we have a plan for offering Haskell Platform packaging via MacPorts
>> or Homebrew? Some users regard these systems as Linux users
>> regard their distribution's package manager: they should be used if at
>> all possible. To quote a friend of mine,
>>
>
> MacPorts already packages the Platform. My understanding is that Homebrew
> has tried to but tends to run into problems; the current Platform was a
> massive pain to massage into MacPorts packaging, so I can well understand
> this. (Can we have the platform-description-via-cabal-file back? That made
> it easy to use cabal-to-Portfile tooling,)
>
I can't see any reason why this wouldn't be possible. It should be quite
straightforward to generate a Cabal file from the hltool.

Mark?

Cheers,

- Ben
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