On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > >I beleive that the best approach would be to split the York build system > >into separate build systems for yhc/yhi/etc. Yhi, being a pure C > >program, can use a system designed for pure C, such as autotools. > > Which doesn't really like Windows, so isn't really an option...
Ah yes. Windows is a good reason to pick scons over autotools. > > Yhc, > >being pure Haskell, would be a much better fit for Cabal than the York > >toolchain currently is considered as a whole. > > The intention is to initially make Yhc compile with Cabal, and have > "scons build yhc" just fork off Cabal to do the work. Gradually it > would be nice to move more bits into Cabal. The York tools are very loosely coupled because of the documented IR. it seems kinda silly to force a common build system on them... Stefan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
