Re: Re-thinking bootstrapping yi

2012-03-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
I think I get it now. It's a bit "scary" to require every user to have a copy of the sources. What you propose seems to amount to having all sources become part of the "configuration" we have now. Would it be possible to have Yi look for "configuration files" in the source tree directly? (but onl

Re: Re-thinking bootstrapping yi

2012-03-28 Thread Corey O'Connor
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: > I'll just throw my two cents. > > I am not sure what are your goals, but my main issue with developing > was the time it took to compile the sources. I think at the moment > "cabal install" compile (nearly) every module twice. This s

Re: Re-thinking bootstrapping yi

2012-03-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Bernardy
I'll just throw my two cents. I am not sure what are your goals, but my main issue with developing was the time it took to compile the sources. I think at the moment "cabal install" compile (nearly) every module twice. This should be avoidable by using the new cabal functionality to depend on a li

Re: Re-thinking bootstrapping yi

2012-03-28 Thread Corey O'Connor
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Jeremy Wall wrote: > I would hesitate to require yi to be able to clone a git location. > This feels like a bad idea to me. > Having yi understand where the modules are located though that seems > reasonable. Hackage > integration might also be reasonable. How feas