Re: scripts on unix

On Thursday 15 March 2007 15:27, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Sven Panne wrote:

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And 'runhs' is actually not a very good name to run nhc98, runnhc or runnhc98 would be much better IMHO.

Well, I chose 'runhs', because it can equally well invoke ghc, hbc, yhc nhc98, or whatever. It is an extension of hmake, which is compiler-independent. You can configure which compiler get invoked by fiddling with your hmake-config options.

OK, I didn't know that. Then it's actually a home-grown special solution for the general problem update-alternatives is trying to solve. I propose to leave runhs as it is for now because of legacy reasons (perhaps deprecate it in the docs?), install a runnhc (or runnhc98? Same question for runhugs, as the corresponding executable is called hugs98. Hmmm...) in addition, and use update-alternatives in the .spec file. Making Haskell implementations behave more consistently would definitely improve the user experience. For those not knowing what I'm talking about, I've digged up a nice blog about update alternatives: http://blog.stevenkroon.com/2006/08/29/debian-update-alternatives/1/ Although this article talks about Debian only, update-alternatives is used on openSUSE and Fedora as well, and probably other *nix platforms. Cheers, S.