On 09/22/2015 12:11 AM, Gershom B wrote: [--snip--] > > The proposal there would be to add an env variable (perhaps > CABAL_PATH_PREFIX) which, if it existed, would be added to the path > before running child processes (such as those kicked off by > build-type:configure). That way windows environments could provide the > Msys2 bin directory and those tools would then be made available to > the configure scripts, etc. >
I'm not sure I understand... what does CABAL_PATH_PREFIX add over just adding whatever is needed to the $PATH before executing cabal? (Without having looked at the issue thread.) I'm mainly worried about option-itis... which cabal-install is already suffering a lot from. Regards, _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
