Re: [wxhaskell-users] making 'cabal install' just work for MacOS X gui apps

[Eric Y. K. <eri...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 15:57:02 +0000, Andy Gimblett wrote:
> I've just taken this and put it into its own project on github:
>
> http://github.com/gimbo/osxSetup.hs

Thanks!  You can count me in as a tester (after the upcoming Darcs Hacking
Sprint, at least).


> What I've done so far is turn Setup.hs into Distribution/MacOSX.hs, and 
> I'm about to start trying to work out how it would be called from a 
> (simpler) Setup.hs, possibly in a nicely cross-platform manner.  That 
> probably means I need to join the cabal-devel list.

I'm no Cabal or MacOS X expert, but it sounds like you could

1. get rid of main (put it in an example Setup.hs)

2. make appBundleHook take mRestrictTo and customiseAppBundle
   as parameters and remove them from the module.

3. make a more generic version of customiseAppBundle
   (note that I still don't know if all the steps there are
    really necessary; see GenI for the plist files, etc)

Otherwise, it looks like the Cabal file for, say, GenI could just depend on the
cabal-macosx package.

Hope this isn't already redundant with what you were planning,

Eric

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