On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:19:37PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Simon Marlow:
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
To be honest, if you ask me, I'd go back to the old makefile based system and remove Cabal from everywhere except building of the library packages.
I wouldn't object to dropping the use of Cabal for other tools in the build tree; the reasons for using it elsewhere are certainly not as compelling as for packages.
Ian, I realise this means backing out a lot of the work you've been doing recently, and it would mean that we'd lose a lot of time in the runup to 6.10.1, but perhaps it's a step that we need to take to get us back on the right track again?
I do realise that this would mean backing out a lot of Ian recent work, and that's why I haven't proposed going back to the old system before you explicitly asked. However, I am increasingly getting the feeling that the move to Cabal was pre-mature, and the overall loss will be minimised by backing out now.
We're only talking about "other tools", not the libraries (including the GHC library), right? This seems like it would be a step backwards to me (after all, I wouldn't have spent the time moving to Cabal if I didn't think it was a step forwards), and I'm not really sure what benefit you see in it: how much time do you spend working in utils/? Thanks Ian