Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poor first impression

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:00:26 -0300 "Fernando Cassia" wrote:

But just think about it... is it easier to DOCUMENT the problem or just include a workaround in the make install code?

It's easier to document the problem.

IF {library not available} then echo "you need to get asdfzxcv lib. before the compiler will work. please use yum or apt-get"

Virtually no other open source project does this, in my experience. It's better just to use yum in the first place, and only if that doesn't work, try the tarballs. -- Robin