RE: Build system idea

| Yes this means that Cabal is less general than autoconf. It was quite a | revelation when we discovered this during the design of Cabal - originally | we were going to have everything done programmatically in the Setup.hs | file, but then we realised that having the package configuration available | *as data* gave us a lot more scope for automation, albeit at the expense of | some generality. Now there's a useful insight for the paper I hope Duncan (or someone) is going to write configuration as code [autoconf] vs configuration as data [cabal] Simon