On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 17:49 -0800, John Meacham wrote:
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 01:37:20AM +0000, Thomas Schilling wrote:
So that's over 20000 SLOC, but, of course, for a more powerful tool. So I presume the 4x more code remark by John was about the Makefile rules to implement something similar to the Simple build system part.)
No, I was refering to 'mk'. which you can download a unix port of here:
http://cminusminus.org/code.html
I chose it since there are a variety of make implementations out there, and GNU make attempts to be compatible with all of them and then some. 'mk' contains a superset of the functionality (with a slightly cleaned up syntax) of what we all generally think of as portable 'make'.
There's hardly any code in Cabal that corresponds to mk/make, since we call out to ghc --make. Most of the code in Cabal is for lots of other features. Of course if Cabal's "Simple" build system did contain more code for a dependency framework like mk or make then it'd be a lot more capable. However building a decent one is easier said than done. We don't just want to re-create make, we want something better. Duncan