Simon Marlow wrote:
+ add a dedicated command "cabal", which does nothing more than "runhaskell Setup", but is more memorable and suggestive
cabal-setup does this, but wasn't included with the latest release of Cabal. It should be in the next one, I hope. The plan is to deprecate 'runhaskell Setup.lhs' in favour of 'cabal-setup'. I'm possibly using cabal in a simplistic way, but I generally do either
./Setup.lhs configure -p ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install or ./Setup.lhs configure -p --prefix=$HOME --user ./Setup.lhs build ./Setup.lhs install --user #perhaps not needed anymore? This is a lot of typing, and at least once I wrote a Makefile to automate it (oh, the irony of it!) Anyway, it would be nice if a 'cabal' command automated the whole sequence in one go, at least as an option. -k