Configure/build separation

[Krasimir Angelov]

Since in Visual Studio there isn't a "Configure" command I decided to
run configure automaticaly when the .cabal file is newer than
.setup-config. The same trick can be used in cabal-setup.

Cheers,
  Krasimir

On 8/21/06, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 14:50 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> > >
> > > First off, being a windows user, having a configure/build separation
> > > seems a bit unusual.
> >
> > It's more for developers I'd say. It means you can configure once and
> > then build, modify code, build, modify code etc etc without having to
> > reconfigure each time.
>
> It's even worse with generation of library documentation. You have to
> 'configure', 'build', and 'haddock' before 'install'.
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