On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 22:08 +0700, Peter Gammie wrote:
Ah, I had in mind nothing so complicated. I want a one-shot command that does clean/configure/build/haddock/install/whatever else. I could write a script but I'd prefer not to. I always forget at least one of those and so things get out of sync and generally screwed up.
runghc Setup DoItFromScratchAndGetOnWithIt --configure-opts
The nearest thing is: cabal clean; cabal install --whatever-configure-options-you-like Though this does not build docs.
This implies that if someone wants to install my stuff, they'll have to trawl my darcs repos and do a lot of it by hand. Can cabal-install be re-targeted to say "prioritise those repos over these repos", ala Debian's APT? If not, the above command would be super-useful.
In principle yes, you could make some kind of repo of local unpacked build trees or remote darcs repos. It'd be a matter of teaching cabal-install how to work with such repos.
That's a shame, there's already the code in GHC and hmake... I hope you can recycle it somehow.
What we need is rather more general, though hopefully there are bits we can re-use. Duncan