On 2006-05-20 at 12:00+0200 "Sebastian Sylvan" wrote: > A quick sales pitch: usually you, the library user, can just type: > > ./runhaskell Setup.hs configure > ./runhaskell Setup.hs build > ./runhaskell Setup.hs install > > And it will Do The Right Thing(TM), which is nice.
This is something I've never understood about the current fashion. Make allows one to set up rules about what depends on what, so why can't we just arrange it so that someone who wants to install the thing just hast to type ./runhaskell Setup.hs install ? I'm aware that part of this process might require root privileges, and that it would be bad to do the rest of it as root, but there are ways around that, surely? Even if not, the first line ought to be unnecessary, since configure produces something that build depends upon. Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
