Hey Neil. FYI, we now have a cabal-devel mailing list also for those interested in getting involved in cabal development. This mailing list is still appropriate for user questions or what-have-you, and I'm sure most of us stil read it :)
"Neil Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm interested in using Cabal to build the base library, just like any > other library. Does this have any chance of working? How much work > would it take? I thought this already was happening? At least in GHC, I see libraries/base/base.cabal. > At the moment the libraries build script has broken on Windows loads > of times, and if Cabal was used it would be nicer, less code, and more > cross platform. Especially once we get cabal-install working to analyze the dependencies. > I'd also like to compile libraries for Hat, Yhc and Catch, and if I > can reuse cabal to do this that would be great. Please do! > If this work was done, would it be possible to reduce the > installation script for the full haskell.org libraries to get > library, cabal config, cabal build, cabal install? With the new cabal-install, you could possibly do: cd ghc/libraries cabal-install */*.cabal (assuming you already have cabal and stuff) > So just a general question about what needs doing, I don't think I understand you completely, so please let me know a bit more detail. Cabal is already used for building the libraries, at least for hugs, and I think for ghc, but perhaps not. Tweaking the ghc makefiles is probably necessary if that's what you want to do. > who is capable of doing it, and what I can do to get it working. YOU are capable of helping out w/ cabal-install and adding Hat & yhc support to cabal :) Paolo and Duncan are leadng the cabal-install effort. peace, isaac _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
