Hi, I like Cabal. There are a few things that I'm used to from autotools which I can't seem to find: dry-runs, uninstall and a "make distcheck" equivalent. Here's my wishlist (ie. stuff I wish someone, possibly me, would hack on ;-) Are the following planned, possible, far-fetched? ./Setup.hs -n, --dry-run For any command, does not actually do anything (build, install, modify the filesystem), but prints the steps that would be executed (ghc commandlines, install locations etc.) uninstall Removes all files and directories created by install sdist-test 1. runs sdist 2. unpacks the resulting tarball 3. runs configure --prefix=_inst build install (into given _inst) test uninstall 4. Checks that no files remain in _inst 5. Cleans up the source tmpdir 6. If all the above succeed, prints a message saying the tarball is ready for distribution cheers, Conrad.