[Haskell-cafe] Re: a cabal/database lib experience

[Ketil Malde]

Simon Marlow wrote:
>>
>>    + add a dedicated command "cabal", which does nothing more
>>        than "runhaskell Setup", but is more memorable and suggestive
>
> cabal-setup does this, but wasn't included with the latest release of 
> Cabal.  It should be in the next one, I hope.  The plan is to 
> deprecate 'runhaskell Setup.lhs' in favour of 'cabal-setup'.   
I'm possibly using cabal in a simplistic way, but I generally do either

   ./Setup.lhs configure -p
   ./Setup.lhs build
   ./Setup.lhs install

or

   ./Setup.lhs configure -p --prefix=$HOME --user
   ./Setup.lhs build
   ./Setup.lhs install --user  #perhaps not needed anymore?

This is a lot of typing, and at least once I wrote a Makefile to 
automate it (oh, the irony of it!)
Anyway, it would be nice if a 'cabal' command automated the whole 
sequence in one go,
at least as an option.

-k