id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
482	survey ./configure scripts in hackage packages	duncan		"Many packages use `./configure` scripts which make them hard to use on Windows as it requires MSYS. Ideally packages could do these custom checks in `Setup.hs` scripts or very common checks might be possible in the Simple build system itself.

This task is to do a survey of the packages on hackage that use `./configure` scripts and identify the most common checks that they are doing. Specifically we would like to know what number of `./configure` scripts could be eliminated by implementing various features in Cabal (either to do the checks directly or to make it easier to do the checks in per-package `Setup.hs` scripts)."	task	new	normal		miscellaneous		normal				normal		Windows