On 3/3/06, Simon Marlow
Following discussions a while back:
http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2006-January/004815.html
there was some concensus (although not unanimous) that Cabal's user interface should be a wrapper program that runs Setup.hs. I've implemented a first cut at this, see the attached Cabal patch. It addresses this ticket:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/63
I'm sending it here rather than committing directly, because I imagine there will be some discussion about whether this is the right thing. I'm pretty convinced this is the right way to go: it solves the Cabal versioning problem, and it frees the programmer from having to write a boilerplate Setup.hs file. It's a step on the way to supporting building of multiple packages.
Look at the patch, tell me what you think. You'll need a completely up-to-date Cabal from darcs to build it.
Did you forget to attach the patch or am I looking in the wrong places? -- Friendly, Lemmih