July 2008 - cabal-devel

patch applied (cabal): Move the docs for the buildable field to a better place.
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 09:08:08 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Move the docs for the buildable field to a better place. It doesn't need to be right up near the top. M ./doc/Cabal.xml -14 +14 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729160808-adfee-f4f65635…

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patch applied (cabal): Document more clearly that every modules must be listed
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 09:03:08 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Document more clearly that every modules must be listed in one of the fields exposed-modules, other-modules or main-is Add an extra note to the section on the Paths_pkgname module as the fact that it's automatically generated confuses people. M ./doc/Cabal.xml +19 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729160308-adfee-2320e922…

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patch applied (cabal): Document the wildcard behaviour in data-files and extra-source-files fields
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:59:20 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Document the wildcard behaviour in data-files and extra-source-files fields M ./doc/Cabal.xml +26 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729155920-adfee-011d48dc…

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patch applied (cabal): Document the $os and $arch install path vars
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:56:54 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Document the $os and $arch install path vars M ./doc/Cabal.xml -11 +52 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729155654-adfee-d5c65e91…

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patch applied (cabal): File globs must match at least one file or it's an error.
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:40:50 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * File globs must match at least one file or it's an error. M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs -2 +5 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729154050-adfee-c0931ecc…

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patch applied (cabal): Fix the semantics of the simple file globbing to be sane
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:26:24 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Fix the semantics of the simple file globbing to be sane I realised when I started to document it that the behaviour was not terribly consistent or sensible. The meaning now is: The limitation is that * wildcards are only allowed in place of the file name, not in the directory name or file extension. In particular, wildcards do not include directories contents recursively. Furthermore, if a wildcard is used it must be used with an extension, so "data-files: data/*" is not allowed. When matching a wildcard plus extension, a file's full extension must match exactly, so "*.gz" matches "foo.gz" but not "foo.tar.gz". The reason for providing only a very limited form of wildcard is to concisely express the common case of a large number of related files of the same file type without making it too easy to accidentally include unwanted files. M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs -12 +10 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729152624-adfee-82b21496…

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patch applied (cabal): Allow $arch and $os in install paths.
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:19:52 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Allow $arch and $os in install paths. Fixes ticket #312. For example a user could use: cabal configure --libsubdir="$pkgid/$compiler/$arch" if they wanted to have packages for multiple architectures co-exist in the same filestore area. M ./Distribution/Simple/InstallDirs.hs -2 +11 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729151952-adfee-15065b63…

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patch applied (cabal): Use "pkg == 1.2.*" as the version wildcard syntax
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 08:16:12 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Use "pkg == 1.2.*" as the version wildcard syntax Rather than "pkg ~ 1.2.*". This seemed to be the consensus. The syntax "pkg == 1.2.*" means "pkg >= 1.2 && < 1.3" and it is to encourage people to put upper bounds on api versions. M ./Distribution/Version.hs -3 +3 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729151612-adfee-fb7eae09…

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patch applied (cabal): Pass -no-user-package-conf to ghc when not using UserPackageDB
by Duncan Coutts 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Tue Jul 29 07:50:40 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Pass -no-user-package-conf to ghc when not using UserPackageDB Should eliminate the corner case where we're doing a global install but the user package db contains the exact same version as in the global package db. Perhaps we should warn in that case anyway since it's likely to go wrong later. M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -2 +4 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080729145040-adfee-63d429c4…

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patch applied (cabal): disambiguate Control.Exception.catch for nhc98
by Malcolm Wallace 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Mon Jul 28 09:45:06 PDT 2008 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * disambiguate Control.Exception.catch for nhc98 M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -1 +2 M ./Distribution/Simple/Program.hs -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080728164506-6871e-679a14ab…

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