August 2007 - cabal-devel

Re: [Hackage] #132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions")
by Hackage 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

#132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions") ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: ijones Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Platform: Linux ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * cc: => nominolo(a)googlemail.com Comment: Now documented too. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/132> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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Re: [Hackage] #109: undocumented options
by Hackage 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

#109: undocumented options ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: ross(a)soi.city.ac.uk | Owner: ijones Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Ghcversion: 6.6 Difficulty: normal | Platform: Linux ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): --enable-haddock-use-packages and --disable-haddock-use-packages are now not just no longer used but actually removed from the configure --help option list! -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/109> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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patch applied (cabal): Remove unused --enable-haddock-use-packages flags
by Duncan Coutts 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Fri Aug 24 06:30:45 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Remove unused --enable-haddock-use-packages flags The feature they controled had been removed but the --enable/disable flag had not been removed. M ./Distribution/Setup.hs -9

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Re: [Hackage] #123: option to configure haddock documentation install directory
by Hackage 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

#123: option to configure haddock documentation install directory ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: jvlask(a)hotmail.com | Owner: ijones Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: 1.1.6 Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Platform: Windows ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by duncan): * resolution: => fixed * status: new => closed Comment: There is now a configure --docdir flag that specifies the documentation directory independent of the datadir. (It's also now documented!) -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/123> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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Re: [Hackage] #132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions")
by Hackage 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

#132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions") ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: ijones Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Platform: Linux ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: normal => easy (<4 hours) * milestone: => Cabal-1.2 * version: 1.1.6 => HEAD Comment: So I've added a "build-tools:" field. However I've added it to the top level part of the cabal package structure where really it should be part of the library and executable sections. I couldn't figure out how to do that though, I'm hoping Thomas will fix that for me :-) So it allows version ranges too, and it uses the Program infrastructure to check for these being satisfied. It rejects programs that are not known to Cabal (note that the known programs can be extended by via the hooks in a Setup.hs script). This does not address the question about pre-generated pre-processor output included in sdist tarballs. As for the cpp issue, the build-tools refers to a specific program, so it's not for the general notion of requiring C style pre-processing. So I think CPP is an extension, and ghc, cpp and cpphs are possible programs that cabal may choose to implement the CPP language extension. So in fact Cabal does not even know about the "cpp" program as it uses ghc or cpphs. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/132> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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patch applied (cabal): Add a "build-tools:" field to the cabal file format
by Duncan Coutts 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Thu Aug 23 14:29:46 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Add a "build-tools:" field to the cabal file format It's the same format as the build-depends, eg: build-tools: cpphs, c2hs >= 0.15 During the configure step we try to configure the listed programs and if a version range is specified then we check that it is satisfied. M ./Distribution/PackageDescription.hs +6 M ./Distribution/Program.hs +5 M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs -4 +22

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patch applied (cabal): Hack to supress a warning when building Cabal
by Duncan Coutts 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Thu Aug 23 14:26:45 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Hack to supress a warning when building Cabal Normally we'd warn if using a new format cabal file and a cabal-version >= 1.2 field is not specified in the cabal file. However we cannot do this for cabal itself or we'd not be able to bootstrap. So we just supress the warning for the package "Cabal". M ./Distribution/PackageDescription.hs -1 +2

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patch applied (cabal): Wrap the configure help text program list and rename the prog arg templates
by Duncan Coutts 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Thu Aug 23 12:32:45 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Wrap the configure help text program list and rename the prog arg templates Use "--with-PROG=" rather than "--with-<program>" since the other subsitution bits like ARGS, PATH etc are upper case contractions. So it's more consistent. M ./Distribution/Setup.hs -10 +12 M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs +17

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patch applied (cabal): Don't include the massive list of --with-prog --prog-args flags in help text
by Duncan Coutts 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Thu Aug 23 08:59:10 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Don't include the massive list of --with-prog --prog-args flags in help text Instead have just two generic ones in the help text and at the bottom, list the programs that the flags apply to. This still needs to be properly word wrapped to fit in 80 cols (as does the rest of the help text). M ./Distribution/Setup.hs -28 +39

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patch applied (cabal): Swap haddock inplace/install dirs that were accidentally the wrong way round
by Duncan Coutts 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Thu Aug 23 08:42:58 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Swap haddock inplace/install dirs that were accidentally the wrong way round M ./Distribution/Simple/Register.hs -2 +2

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