[Haskell] installing streams library

Jon Fairbairn jon.fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sat May 20 16:18:05 EDT 2006


On 2006-05-20 at 11:58EDT Robert Dockins wrote:
> On Saturday 20 May 2006 06:53 am, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
> > Make allows one to set up rules about what depends
> > on what, so why can't we just arrange it so that someone who
> > wants to install the thing just hast to type
> >
> > ./runhaskell Setup.hs install
> >
> FWIW, it's almost identical to the incantation necessary
> for projects based on autotools, where it usually reads
> something like:
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make install

I know. That's the fashion I'm complaining about!  I think
we shouldn't follow it if we can possibly avoid it.

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Jón Fairbairn                              Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk




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