Isaac Jones
There might be a "bootstrapping" issue here that isn't an issue with Python since a "Setup.hs" script won't necessarily know which compiler is installed. One solution is for the compilers to standardized on something like "/usr/bin/runhaskell", but then the user would need a way to choose a default. "hmake interactive" might get us there, if there were a way to invoke it like runhugs, and hmake already has the idea of a default compiler.
Well, the following works fine hmake Setup -- use default Haskell compiler to build script ./Setup -- run the script provided that your default Haskell system is not Hugs. Hmmm, maybe we could tweak hmake to accept Hugs as a sort-of compiler, producing a runnable shell-script as the "executable". The shell script would simply invoke runhugs with whatever options were specified for the "build". Regards, Malcolm