Feb. 3, 2009
6:04 a.m.
Ben Finney wrote:
Instead, you're being asked only to determine which category a file belongs to; and those categories are (modulo some historical quirks, due to David's obvious strong preference for the C-language-focussed ‘autoconf’) mostly about the *purpose* of a file — precisely to allow that determination to be made without the same person needing to know about install locations.
I've just found out that cabal ("distutils for haskell") supports most of those options, BTW: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/latest/doc/users-guide/builders.html#se... And haskell is not really a C-language-focused language :) I don't know anything about haskell, but it may be interesting to look at how they are doing things, David