On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:56:35AM -0500, Isaac Jones wrote:
This is indeed very cool. Much of this should probably just be integrated into the Distribution.Simple stuff for Hugs.
It will require some changes: the extra fields I mentioned, plus some complications in the preprocessing.
I think the only sticking point is whether we have one file or two, the description verses the build info.
If a package requires system-dependent parameters, there will surely be two hunks of information from the author's viewpoint: the file Setup.description (which you want in the source bundle for use by the other tools) and something else for the build information. No one will want to repeat all the information in Setup.description in that other thing, so it will need different handling. The question is whether that should be reflected by the interface. Also, since you're writing code to read (and presumably to save) the output of preConf, if you moved this persistency handling inside defaultMainWorker you could simplify the interface: the other hooks wouldn't need to return anything.
It looks like you use the params to configure, so maybe the hook functions need to take the flags for each param as input or something. Hmmmm.
Well, the preConf would, but maybe that's different from the others.