duncan.coutts: > > It is important to me that jhc be as widely accessible at possible. The > > number of machines './configure && make install' will work on outnumbers > > those that cabal install will work on hundreds or thousands to > > one. > > I've sometimes wondered why nobody has made a generic configure.ac and > makefile that wraps the Cabal build procedure. It seems pretty > straightforward and it might help lower barriers for some users, > especially, as John mentions, potential users from outside the > community.
Yes. Reuse. That's why we moved to Cabal in the first place - to avoid reimplementing Makefiles, .hi rules, .o rules, and ld linking arguments once per Haskell library, which wasn't scalable in the slightest. We could come back, and have the 'make && make install' fans wrap up cabal with a generic wrapper for people who like to type 'make'. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
