Petr Rockai <[email protected]> writes:
>> I'm happy to switch the defaults, but I think it would be prudent to
>> keep the autoconf stuff up to date for at one more release, if not two.
>> Carefully, carefully.  It may slow us down, but I think it pays off.

My expectation is that 2.3's autoconf support will be like 2.2's cabal
support: it mostly works, and we aren't deliberately disabling it, but
it's not the official "blessed" build method.  In 2.4 or 2.5, we disable
and remove autoconf entirely.

> Well, pays or not, the question is whether we have the manpower to
> throw at it. I am certainly not that manpower -- if Trent volunteers
> to fixing up autoconf, I won't be opposed, although I'm sure there are
> many more useful ways for his darcs time to be spent.

I'll fix things that are release-critical or critical, but I've no
interest in fixing minor bugs in the autoconf infrastructure.  I've
WONTFIXed some bugs in the BTS today for that reason.

> Without moving our infrastructure [...] there are no bots to verify
> that our build system works, et cetera. [...] Let's just switch to
> Cabal now, fix up the damage this does and then, if someone finds the
> time in the following 4 or 5 months, fixes up autoconf.

+1 to this approach.

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