CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

• PR or email
• this script is POSIX shell
• use shellcheck and checkbashisms.pl from debian devscripts
• whitespaces, no tabs

Adding a new distro, updating GHC versions, ...

This script makes use of two files:

1. .download-urls, which is meta information on what binary tarball to download for the given version, architecture and distribution. If you know your distribution XY works with a tarball, add a <distroname>=<distrover> key to that line. <distroname> will be the fallback and after that unknown. Lines are unique per tarball url.
2. .available-versions, which just lists available upstream versions and tags.

TODO

• FreeBSD support (#4)
• Make fetching tarballs more robust (#5)
• More code documentation
• Allow to compile from source (#2)
• Allow to install cabal-install as well (#3)