http://therning.org/magnus/archives/417 Incoherent mumblings Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:40:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://therning.org/magnus/archives/417/comment-page-1#comment-163230 nominolo Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:42:47 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=417#comment-163230 <p>FWIW, <code>make</code> it is hard to beat in mindshare, ease of installation and, related, build dependencies. Ian and SimonM know <code>make</code>, and one big reason was to also make the build-system more accessible to new developers (ATM, a lot of the logic is implemented in Cabal itself or even indirectly through code generated by Cabal). Switching to a completely new system would therefore be a loss for all participants; so it was pretty much a no-brainer. Sure, <code>make</code> has its weaknesses, but so have all the other tools out there. At one point, GHC may be able to completely use Cabal and it's current in-development make-framework, but we cannot expect this to become better than <code>make</code> anytime soon.</p> FWIW, make it is hard to beat in mindshare, ease of installation and, related, build dependencies. Ian and SimonM know make, and one big reason was to also make the build-system more accessible to new developers (ATM, a lot of the logic is implemented in Cabal itself or even indirectly through code generated by Cabal). Switching to a completely new system would therefore be a loss for all participants; so it was pretty much a no-brainer. Sure, make has its weaknesses, but so have all the other tools out there. At one point, GHC may be able to completely use Cabal and it’s current in-development make-framework, but we cannot expect this to become better than make anytime soon.

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