Cabal vs base

[Esa Ilari Vuokko]

On 8/9/06, Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org> wrote:
> "Neil Mitchell" <ndmitchell at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm interested in using Cabal to build the base library, just like any
> > other library. Does this have any chance of working? How much work
> > would it take?
>
> I thought this already was happening?  At least in GHC, I see
> libraries/base/base.cabal.

I think the last stopping thing is GHC.Prim - it's generated with by
invoking ghc/utils/genprimopcode.  Should we move that to Setup.hs
or what?

Best regards,
--Esa