On Saturday 20 May 2006 06:53 am, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > 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.
FWIW, it's almost identical to the incantation necessary for projects based on autotools, where it usually reads something like: ./configure make make install That means Cabal should fit nicely into package management systems that are used to dealing with autotools projects (Debian, Gentoo, bsd ports, darwinports, etc). > Jón Rob Dockins _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
