On 8/3/05, Ross Paterson
Proposals:
1) New field extra-tmp-files, a list of extra files to be removed by setup clean, beyond those that can be deduced.
I can't see why this field is required.
2) Rename other-files as extra-source-files for consistency and clarity.
OK
3) New field data-files, a list of files to be copied to a place where an executable can find them (e.g. template-hsc.h for hsc2hs): Hugs: the directory containing the Main module GHC/Windows: the directory containing the executable GHC/Unix: /usr/local/share/<exename> plus a new function in System.Directory to return the name of this directory. That would address Dimitry's requirements in
I would like to propose more Unix like directory layout for Windows i.e.: executables: %ProgramFiles%\<pkg-name>\bin libraries: %ProgramFiles%\<pkg-name>\lib data files: %ProgramFiles%\<pkg-name>\data The advantage is that if you have a lot of libraries and data files then it is easier to find out the executable files. Happy, Alex and Haddock already use layout like in the Ross's proposal but I found it very inconvenient because usually I am building them together with ghc. The problem is that when I do make install in the fptools directory then ghc is installed in ${prefix}/bin but the above tools are installed in ${prefix}. Usually then ${prefix} directory isn't included in the PATH and this makes them inaccessible. I can move them to ${prefix}/bin but then I have to move all other template files too. It would be nice if we had more consistent directory layout. Cheers, Krasimir