On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:29 AM, David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jason Dagit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Now it seems as though the plan is to throw autotools out the window on > > all platforms and unconditionally. Meaning that on POSIX platforms we > are > > changing something that isn't broken. > > No, the configure script *is* broken, it's just not as broken as cabal > is. It doesn't allow very good forward-compatibility, only > backward-compatibility, meaning with every major release of ghc, darcs > is broke, because the configure script needs to explicitly mention > every possible package that might contain a module that we use. > Franchise fixes this bug. I couldn't figure out how Franchise fixes this from looking at the source repository (and there doesn't seem to be any website or user documentation other than an example or two of very simple projects that don't illustrate this point). Could you please explain? Jason
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