Build system idea

[Norman Ramsey]

 > Simon PJ and I had a talk about the build system earlier today, I thought 
 > I'd float the idea we discussed...
 > I propose we do this:
 > 
 >   - Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as
 >     part of the GHC build system.  Rather than generating a Makefile
 >     complete with build rules, we generate a Makefile that just
 >     has the package-specific metadata (list of modules, etc.), and put
 >     the code to actually build the package in the GHC build system.
 > 
 > This means we still get to use 'make', we still get to use the .cabal files 
 > as metadata, but the build system is more private to GHC, more extensible, 
 > and hopefully more understandable and modifiable...
 >
 > ... I'm interested in whether anyone thinks this idea is worth
 > persuing, or whether there are better alternatives.

Simon,

This direction sounds very promising.  I hope you will keep us posted.


Norman