January 2008 - cabal-devel

patch applied (cabal): Add Alistair Bayley's unlit test suite
by Duncan Coutts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Sat Dec 29 17:37:23 PST 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Add Alistair Bayley's unlit test suite A ./tests/UnlitTest.hs

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patch applied (cabal): Refactor unlit code to improve error and line pragma handling
by Duncan Coutts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Sat Dec 29 17:25:30 PST 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Refactor unlit code to improve error and line pragma handling And to make it more like the original code that classified lines separately from checking and transforming them. M ./Distribution/Simple/Hugs.hs -3 +7 M ./Distribution/Simple/PreProcess.hs -1 +1 M ./Distribution/Simple/PreProcess/Unlit.hs -55 +86

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patch applied (cabal): haddock: run unlit before cpp, like ghc does.
by Duncan Coutts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Tue Dec 4 13:13:56 PST 2007 alistair(a)abayley.org * haddock: run unlit before cpp, like ghc does. M ./Distribution/Simple/Haddock.hs -8 +12

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patch applied (cabal): unlit preserves comments for Haddock's benefit. More complex algorithm to handle cases where we want blank lines (containing whitespace) to become comment lines in the output.
by Duncan Coutts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Tue Dec 4 13:15:50 PST 2007 alistair(a)abayley.org * unlit preserves comments for Haddock's benefit. More complex algorithm to handle cases where we want blank lines (containing whitespace) to become comment lines in the output. M ./Distribution/Simple/PreProcess/Unlit.hs -59 +73

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building only the docs
by Peter Gammie 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Do you expect this to work? <setup> clean <setup> configure <setup> haddock <setup> install I get, e.g.: $ runghc Setup install Installing: /home/peteg/lib/HaXml-1.13.2/ghc-6.6.1 Installing: /home/peteg/bin Setup.hs: Error: Could not find module: Text.ParserCombinators.HuttonMeijerWallace with any suffix: ["hi"] whereas if I swap "build" for "haddock" line the "install" line does not complain about the lack of docs to install. cheers peter

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patch applied (cabal): Document --program-prefix and --program-suffix
by Duncan Coutts 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Wed Jan 30 12:50:11 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Document --program-prefix and --program-suffix and a couple other trivial tidyups M ./doc/Cabal.xml -52 +97

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[Hackage] #219: JHC's generated .ho files should go under dist/
by Hackage 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

#219: JHC's generated .ho files should go under dist/ ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: Linux | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Apparently JHC puts `.ho` files into the src dirs. That will not work any more since we only clean the `dist/` directory. It's really much simpler that way. The fix is probably to pass some extra flag to jhc when compiling in `Distribution/Simple/JHC.hs`. Should be easy to fix for anyone who has a working jhc installed. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/219> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #208: Support program prefixes and suffixes
by Hackage 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

#208: Support program prefixes and suffixes ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: Linux | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- GNU autoconf has these configure flags: {{{ `--program-prefix=prefix' Specifies a prefix which should be added to the name of a program when installing it. For example, using `--program-prefix=g' when configuring a program normally named `tar' will cause the installed program to be named `gtar' instead. `--program-suffix=suffix' Specifies a suffix which should be appended to the name of a program when installing it. }}} This would be handy for appending program versions to allow installing multiple versions of the same program. For example: {{{ cabal configure --program-prefix='$version' }}} So I can end up with `haddock-0.9` and `haddock-2.0.0.0` in my `~/bin` dir. Distros that use 'alternatives' systems might like to use this feature. This should be fairly easy to implement, as the prefix/suffix can be parsed and represented as a `PathTemplate`, which handles `$version` vars etc. The prefix/suffix would need to be propagated into the `LocalBuildInfo` (and probably var-substituted into an ordinary `String` at that point) and then used when generating the binary name. This would be particularly handy in combination with a cabal-install feature to symlink newly-installed versions of programs into an alternative directory. For example we might install versioned binaries into ~/.cabal/bin by default and symlink the latest into ~/bin. Or we might symlink versioned links to each version, and an unversioned link to the latest one that got installed. Anyway, there's room for exploration there as to the best default. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/208> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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Re: [Hackage] #67: sdist doesn't include .hs-boot files
by Hackage 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

#67: sdist doesn't include .hs-boot files ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: ijones | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.2.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * summary: sdist doesn't include .hi-boot files => sdist doesn't include .hs-boot files -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/67#comment:3> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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Re: [Hackage] #67: sdist doesn't include .hi-boot files
by Hackage 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

#67: sdist doesn't include .hi-boot files ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: ijones | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.2.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: normal => easy (<4 hours) Comment: Should be easy, find a package that uses .hs-boot files and test it. It should be easy to extend sdist to include .hs-boot files in the tarball. Then add a small test case to cabal's tests/ collection to verify in future that it still works. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/67#comment:2> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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