On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 13:48 +0200, Henrique Ferreiro García wrote:
It seems to be a little more complicated. Each compiler has a installExe and installLibs (or a joined install) functions which also mix collecting files and copying them.
Ah yes.
I think that the right thing to do would be to abstract away those compiler functions in a module with the same interface for all of them. Distribution.Simple.Compiler seems to be place.
Right, we've wanted to do that for a while but there are other limitations stopping us from doing that yet.
Moreover, something has to be done to decouple the file gathering from the copying phase in this functions, but I am not the correct person to decide how to do it.
Indeed. We would want to change the installLibs/installExe for each compiler to return a set of files to copy. We can do that without changing to use a proper compiler abstraction. They're independent problems Duncan