Remove Setup.hs, use Setup.lhs only

Isaac Jones ijones at syntaxpolice.org
Mon Nov 27 17:47:12 EST 2006


Lemmih <lemmih at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/27/06, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Isaac Jones wrote:
>>
>> > I anticipate some objections, because some people _hate_ .lhs, but we
>> > can see how it goes; in that case, they could always use the
>> > user-supplied field to tell cabal layered tools to use the
>> > Setup.Foo.Hs or whatever the user wants.
>>
>> What about a separate binary, say 'cabal-setup', that calls
>>   runhaskell Setup.hs
>>  ?
>
> Isn't that essentially what 'cabal-setup' is doing now?

cabal-setup is doing that and more, yes.

peace,

  isaac


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