Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:43:54 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: >> I don't know. I guess it depends on what the roadmap is for cabal >> becoming the "blessed" build system, and also on whether we ever >> intend to port the above targets across to Cabal. Last time I was >> looking at this, ISTR someone saying something depressing like "I >> don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of make entirely" :-( > > The earliest the cabal file will become blessed by 2009-07. I think I > may have been the one to make this comment, but I don't find it > particularly depressing. > > We could use Cabal for building darcs, and make for doing maintainer-y > things, which doesn't seem particularly objectionable because the need > to keep maintainer-y things accesible to a wide audience isn't quite > so large.
On the other hand, having only one build system for everything helps blurring the distinction between user and developper. Maybe we should open bugs on cabal to make it more developper friendly? Does xmonad build tag files, user documentation? Florent _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
