On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:08 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:37 -0700, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:22 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
And of course, at that point, you'd be better off just writing the
gwern0: script in Haskell.
(Seriously, I had to do that for the Roguestar packages. It was
hardly
any trouble at all - Haskell is a better scripting language than I think people give it credit for.)
I'd agree here. It probably is easier to rewrite it in Haskell (just use system everywhere), and keep easy distribution via cabal-install.
Yikes. Every time I learn something new about Cabal, it's /always/ some new limitation, never a new feature. Are there any plans to someday permit doing things with Cabal the Cabal developers haven't added specific code for yet?
All these things are already possible (if not easy) using custom code in the Setup.hs script and/or using a ./configure script.
I assume the claim above about cabal-install failing to install such a package is incorrect, right? Beyond which, to paraphrase what I tell my boss at work, I can get Setup.lhs to do anything I want, it's written in a Turing-complete language. But I'd rather not use a tool I'm going to have to fight. jcc