Re: Build system idea

Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Simon Marlow wrote:

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This means we still get to use 'make', we still get to use the .cabal files as metadata, but the build system is more private to GHC, more extensible, and hopefully more understandable and modifiable.

This is essentially the same approach that nhc98 currently takes to building libraries.

Right, I was aware that nhc98 uses this method but forgot to mention it. Thanks for pointing it out. I think it makes a lot more sense for us to re-use parts of Cabal than to re-implement the whole thing, although the balance is probably different for nhc98. Cabal generates the InstalledPackageInfo from the .cabal file, for example, and this is certainly something we don't want to re-implement. Cheers, Simon