April 2008 - cabal-devel

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.4): expose ghcOptions
by Duncan Coutts 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Thu Apr 17 14:12:21 PDT 2008 jeanphilippe.bernardy(a)gmail.com * expose ghcOptions This helps finding the options to pass to GHC API in various tools M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.4/_darcs/patches/2008041721…

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patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.4): expose tryGetConfigStateFile
by Duncan Coutts 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Thu Apr 17 11:02:48 PDT 2008 jeanphilippe.bernardy(a)gmail.com * expose tryGetConfigStateFile This is needed by Yi to (try to) load an arbitrary project. M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.4/_darcs/patches/2008041718…

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patch applied (cabal-install): Update for checkPackage change
by Duncan Coutts 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Wed Apr 23 08:38:17 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Update for checkPackage change M ./Hackage/Check.hs -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/_darcs/patches/20080423153817-adfee-…

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patch applied (cabal): Add checks for unknown OS Arch and Compiler names
by Duncan Coutts 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Wed Apr 23 08:14:10 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Add checks for unknown OS Arch and Compiler names They're ok locally but for distribution they need to be known. M ./Distribution/PackageDescription/Check.hs -4 +47 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080423151410-adfee-d013d038…

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patch applied (cabal): Package check now take a GenericPackageDescription
by Duncan Coutts 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Wed Apr 23 08:03:54 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Package check now take a GenericPackageDescription Unfortunately in some cases we only have a already-configured PackageDescription to we have to expose a checkConfiguredPackage. We should refactor things so that we keep all the information even in a configured PackageDescription. M ./Distribution/PackageDescription/Check.hs -3 +21 M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs -6 +14 M ./Distribution/Simple/SrcDist.hs -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080423150354-adfee-27a582e3…

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[Hackage] #253: Check for invalid operating system names
by Hackage 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

#253: Check for invalid operating system names ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Some packages (eg hslogger-1.0.4) have incorrect operation system names tests: {{{ if !os(win32) Build-Depends: unix }}} It's incorrect because there is no such operating system "win32", there is "windows" which is an alias for "mingw32". So we should check for these problems. At the moment the OS is just a String . We should decide if we want to use an enumeration or leave it more flexible and just warn about unknown ones. Checks are easy to add, see `Distribution/PackageDescription/Check.hs` -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/253> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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patch applied (cabal): Update UTF8 code
by Duncan Coutts 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Tue Apr 22 07:15:39 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Update UTF8 code Some code and test cases taken from the utf8-string package. Updated copyright notice appropriately (I think). M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs -11 +39 A ./tests/UnitTest/UTF8 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080422141539-adfee-fe5c62db…

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patch applied (cabal): Make warning messages show the file name
by Duncan Coutts 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Tue Apr 22 07:19:09 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Make warning messages show the file name M ./Distribution/ParseUtils.hs -2 +4 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080422141909-adfee-c4332c37…

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patch applied (cabal): fix import for nhc98
by Malcolm Wallace 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Tue Apr 22 06:30:09 PDT 2008 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * fix import for nhc98 M ./Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080422133009-6871e-4110c628…

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Cabal spelunking considered tricky
by Bryan O'Sullivan 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

As I've been maintaining cabal-rpm to try to keep up with developments in Cabal, I've found myself wondering why it's not using many of the usual tricks to hide the plumbing, such as a custom monad transformer stack. Some parameters, such as flags, compiler info, and package descriptions, pop up simply all over the place, and they're passed around explicitly. This seems a smidge peculiar. A couple of days with a crowbar and ReaderT StateT IO would do wonders for readability, if anyone feels so inclined :-) <b

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