CrystalSplitter / CrystalSplitter/ghcitui
Find out how to distribute GHCiTUI
- Dominant language
- Haskell
- Stars
- 60
- Forks
- 1
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Currently the only installation process is to install from source as a Nix-style build. This is probably okay if the package is available on Hackage, but it's a bit limiting. See if we can get a standalone executable build working that we can ship from a tarball? Ideally, I would like to not ship our own libc, so perhaps worth looking into what linking configurations we can configure.
May need to make a Setup.hs script too. Can't find a huge amount of documentation for what that actually implies beyond the Cabal manual (https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/stable/setup-commands.html)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the current Nix-style source installation and the Cabal manual linked in the issue, then investigate whether a Setup.hs script and suitable linking configurations can produce a standalone build. Done means documenting or implementing a way to ship GHCiTUI as an executable in a tarball without bundling its own libc.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- build-system, cli, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100