Download/Install Script for Binary
joehand opened this issue · comments
With #115 we have binaries being built on each new tagged release.
However, we still need to make it easy to "install" this. We've used this script with dat: https://github.com/datproject/dat/blob/master/download.sh and can take a similar approach.
- Add download/install script
- Document install methods (via npm or via install script)
- Add install methods to website
For some documentation fodder, see https://zeit.co/download.sh
See https://gist.github.com/joehand/24f15a88c13dc628fd3dc459d9810429 for an install script and some open questions also added below.
Questions I have:
- Is
~/.cabal/releasesthe best place to install? - Can we make that exit message nicer?
- What if the latest release isn't published? (this happened in Dat because we released a new one but the binary didn't get built b/c tests failed causing this script to break)
- Should we prefer this distribution to
npm? (e.g. zeit/now installs the binary when you do npm install)
Is ~/.cabal/releases the best place to install?
yeah that's a good spot :)
Can we make that exit message nicer?
on fail? or what exit message
What if the latest release isn't published? (this happened in Dat because we released a new one but the binary didn't get built b/c tests failed causing this script to break)
Should we prefer this distribution to npm? (e.g. zeit/now installs the binary when you do npm install)
oh hm, i don't think i have any opinions on these. @noffle?
@joehand I'm ok with letting people use their distribution's package manager to install cabal, and just providing the ZIP archives with the binaries for folx who want to DIY it.