On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:18:21PM +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
>
> We *do not* install hsc2hs anymore, and make it a standalone project 
> distributed separately. Same for cpphs.

The only issue I see is that Cabal calls hsc2hs when necessary, but alex
and happy are already in the that situation. Unfortunately packages
can't depend on tools, they just fail when asked to build. Perhaps there
should be a cabal "Tools:" field similar to "Extensions:"?

> I think this disentangling of tools and compilers/interpreters makes sense, 
> and the update-alternatives technology is only needed for 'runhaskell'.

Sounds good to me!


Thanks
Ian

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