xyne:
Additionally, please consider changing the cabal2arch help message as it does not describe what cabal2arch actually does:
cabal2pkg: [-h|--help] [directory|url] Generate PKGBUILD to stdout for .cabal file in <directory> or at <url>
I don't understand this. The above message *is* what cabal2arch does. It generates PKGBUILDs to stdout, for the .cabal file given in <directory> or <url>
cabal2arch 0.6-1 does not generate anything to STDOUT. It creates a directory and writes the PKGBUILD and install file to that directory, along with the aforementioned "clutter" outside of that directory. The help text should therefore not include "to stdout" in my opinion.
Oh, yes. That is also true.
I am unable to test cabal2arch 0.6.1-1 to see if this has changed because I simply cannot build it. It seems that there are several haskell packages, including packages in extra, which do not contain correct and complete depends arrays in their PKGBUILDs. When trying to build cabal2arch, I am unable to get passed building haskell-csv which is pulled in as a dependency:
Please wait until we have completed the 6.12 update (other emails on this on the arch-haskell list), or else delay your upgrade. The darcs version of cabal2arch includes the new dependency policy. -- Don