#482: survey ./configure scripts in hackage packages ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: miscellaneous | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: Platform: Windows | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Many packages use `./configure` scripts which make them hard to use on Windows as it requires MSYS. Ideally packages could do these custom checks in `Setup.hs` scripts or very common checks might be possible in the Simple build system itself. This task is to do a survey of the packages on hackage that use `./configure` scripts and identify the most common checks that they are doing. Specifically we would like to know what number of `./configure` scripts could be eliminated by implementing various features in Cabal (either to do the checks directly or to make it easier to do the checks in per-package `Setup.hs` scripts). -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/482 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects