Re: Build system idea

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:21:10AM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:

You imply you like Cabal's metadata, which says "I depend on network version 1", right?

no, I mean a standard way to specify a package name, a description of it, a category, etc..

But you don't like Cabal's configuration management? What is Cabal's configuration management, then?

the build-depends field mainly, pretty much everything dealing with cabal building a package rather than just describing the _result_ of a successful building. One is constant between build systems and would be generally useful to standardize independently, the other depends on the specific build system/configuration manager used. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈