Hi
have later commands include earlier ones. So,
setup.py install
automatically does "build" (there is no explicit configure step).
Sounds entirely reasonable to me. Though configure takes a bunch of arguments; so if configure is run automatically it'll always be with the default settings. Maybe that's ok.
I would love this. I have a batch file on my computer called cabal-ghc, which does a configure, then a build, then an install. I've never felt the need to pass flags to configure, and as it happens, I wouldn't have a clue what flags to pass in anyway. This reduces the number of cabal steps to install a library, less is clearly better! I also have cabal-hugs which installs the library under hugs, and cabal-all, which configure/build/install's the library under hugs and ghc. Those 6 commands are really annoying, this way i can do cabal-all and go away and come back later. Thanks Neil