On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 02:07 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:44:46PM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > Those new to Cabal always seem to assume things are going badly when > > "happy not found". We need to address the psychological aspect > > of Cabal's config process :) > > But it's not enough to just say "Ignore any errors above". Some packages > really do need happy (or some other tool) to build. Cabal would need to > crawl over the source files to see what preprocessors are really needed. Yes, this is exactly what Cabal should do. We need to do this to make non-trivial pre-processors work properly anyway. We need to have Cabal do the import chasing and work out which tools will be necessary for the build. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe