> Simon PJ and I had a talk about the build system earlier today, I thought > I'd float the idea we discussed... > I propose we do this: > > - Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as > part of the GHC build system. Rather than generating a Makefile > complete with build rules, we generate a Makefile that just > has the package-specific metadata (list of modules, etc.), and put > the code to actually build the package in the GHC build system. > > This means we still get to use 'make', we still get to use the .cabal files > as metadata, but the build system is more private to GHC, more extensible, > and hopefully more understandable and modifiable... > > ... I'm interested in whether anyone thinks this idea is worth > persuing, or whether there are better alternatives.
Simon, This direction sounds very promising. I hope you will keep us posted. Norman _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
