October 2011 - cabal-devel

[Hackage] #676: bash-completion gets confused by alias for rm
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#676: bash-completion gets confused by alias for rm ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: benmachine | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I have an alias for rm defined so that it is by default verbose (alias rm='rm -v' in my bashrc). When I do cabal install has<tab> I get something like: [ben@euler ~]$ cabal install hasbash: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/tmp/cabal_completion.tD2o8O' It turns out that rm is helpfully going: removed `/tmp/cabal_completion.hb1zbc' and then cabal is trying to use this as part of the completion command - choking on the ` because bash thinks it is part of a substitution. So rm should probably explicitly discard its stdout. While I was there I noticed that "cat" is used redundantly. There's nothing really wrong with this so that part of the patch can be cut I suppose, but I thought it was neater to use bash's input redirection explicitly. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/676> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #677: Error: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal"
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#677: Error: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal" ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.10.4 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I recently upgraded cabal-install and started getting this error: $ cabal install HDBC Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal" I also get the same error when I try to install one of my own packages that depends on HDBC. I tried changing my HDBC dependency to == 2.2.2 as well as >= 2.2.6, but still get the same error for version 2.2.5. I have cabal-install version 0.6.2 and Cabal version 1.6.0.3. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/677> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #674: Findable extra documentation
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#674: Findable extra documentation ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: jbapple | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I have a cabal package that should include extra documentation in the distribution. This documentation should not be written in Haddock. 1. There should be a field for this analogous to data-files or extra- source-files. The former is too much: the files do not need to be accessed by any Haskell runtime. The latter is not enough: it does not store the extracted files on the system on which the package is installed. 2. There should be a way for humans to find these files without loading up a GHC runtime or using Unix's "find". I suggest "cabal list" also shows, for installed packages with extra data or documentation files installed, where these files can be found. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/674> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #871: Library with test builds the test executable against the library's cabal_macros.h
by Hackage 07 Dec '11

07 Dec '11

#871: Library with test builds the test executable against the library's cabal_macros.h ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: AntoineLatter | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.1.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Things like 'VERSION_package' may not only be wrong, but may cause compile errors if the library doesn't include the package in question (but the test does). This is likely to come up in a MIN_VERSION_criterion or MIN_VERSION_HUnit case. This might only be a problem if the test executable is using the new "build against a compiled version of the library" technique - I haven't played around too much. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/871> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #760: exclude all but latest documentation from search results
by Hackage 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

#760: exclude all but latest documentation from search results --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: warren | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- When searching for haskell documentation on google, quite frequently the top search results are versions of the library documentation from the archives. For instance, when searching for Data.Vector, the top hit is version 0.5, whereas the latest is 0.7. Also, if the user selects the 0.7 version, it isn't obvious from the documentation that this version corresponds to the latest since it also appears in the archive (the url is http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/vector/0.7/doc/html/Data- Vector.html). So I'm wondering if it might not make sense to exclude all but the latest haddock documentation from search results by augmenting the robots.txt file. It might also make sense to provide alternate urls to the latest versions of documents. E.g. Starting from the http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector page (which is the latest version), and clicking on Data.Vector, one is taken to http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/vector/0.7/doc/html/Data- Vector.html... but it might be better if this were http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/current/vector/doc/html/Data- Vector.html. This would allow for all files under /archive to be excluded. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/760> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #897: cabal sdist broken on OS X
by Hackage 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

#897: cabal sdist broken on OS X ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: Mac OS | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- The latest released version of cabal-install generates an sdist correctly: {{{ $ cabal sdist -v3 Warning: Cannot run preprocessors. Run 'configure' command first. creating dist/src Building source dist for hashable-1.1.2.2... creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2 creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/Data creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/cbits Installing ./Data/Hashable.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/./Data/Hashable.hs Installing cbits/hashByteString.c to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/cbits/hashByteString.c creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests Installing tests/Properties.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests/Properties.hs creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2 Installing LICENSE to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/LICENSE creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2 Installing CHANGES to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/CHANGES creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2 Installing README.md to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/README.md creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests Installing tests/Properties.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/tests/Properties.hs creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks Installing benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks Installing benchmarks/Makefile to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/benchmarks/Makefile creating dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2 Installing Setup.hs to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/Setup.hs Installing ./hashable.cabal to dist/src/sdist.67677/hashable-1.1.2.2/./hashable.cabal Source tarball created: dist/hashable-1.1.2.2.tar.gz }}} but HEAD generates an incorrectly named tempdir: {{{ $ cabal sdist -v3 creating dist/src Building source dist for hashable-1.1.2.2... creating dist/src/sdist.-67246 creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/Data creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/cbits Installing ./Data/Hashable.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/./Data/Hashable.hs Installing cbits/hashByteString.c to dist/src/sdist.-67246/cbits/hashByteString.c creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests Installing tests/Properties.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests/Properties.hs creating dist/src/sdist.-67246 Installing LICENSE to dist/src/sdist.-67246/LICENSE creating dist/src/sdist.-67246 Installing CHANGES to dist/src/sdist.-67246/CHANGES creating dist/src/sdist.-67246 Installing README.md to dist/src/sdist.-67246/README.md creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests Installing tests/Properties.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/tests/Properties.hs creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks Installing benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks/Benchmarks.hs creating dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks Installing benchmarks/Makefile to dist/src/sdist.-67246/benchmarks/Makefile Preprocessing library hashable-1.1.2.2... creating dist/src/sdist.-67246 Installing Setup.hs to dist/src/sdist.-67246/Setup.hs Installing ./hashable.cabal to dist/src/sdist.-67246/./hashable.cabal cabal: dist/src/sdist.-67246/hashable-1.1.2.2: does not exist }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/897> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #767: Highlighted source code on hackage.haskell.org mangles Unicode
by Hackage 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

#767: Highlighted source code on hackage.haskell.org mangles Unicode ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: andersk | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: HackageDB Component: hackageDB website | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- On hackage.haskell.org, when you browse the source of a module that contains Unicode (e.g. [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base- unicode-symbols/latest/doc/html/src/Data-Eq-Unicode.html Data.Eq.Unicode]), it is sent with a `Content-Type: text/html` header with no charset. There is a charset in the XML declaration `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>`, but that is ignored by Firefox because of the non-XML `Content-Type`. Therefore, the wrong encoding is detected and the Unicode symbols get mangled. Possible fixes include sending `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8`, or sending `Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml` so that the XML declaration is respected , or both (`Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8`), or adding equivalent `<meta http-equiv="Content-Type">` tags. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/767> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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Re: [Hackage] #234: track installed files to allow uninstall
by Hackage 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

#234: track installed files to allow uninstall ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by Jim Stuttard): * cc: jims@… (added) -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/234#comment:17> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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Re: [Hackage] #234: track installed files to allow uninstall
by Hackage 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

#234: track installed files to allow uninstall ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by Blaisorblade): Replying to [comment:15 Jim Stuttard]: > cc jims(a)stuttard.org That does not work; instead, find the "Add to Cc" checkbox in the "Change Properties" form, below the comment box. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/234#comment:16> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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Re: [Hackage] #234: track installed files to allow uninstall
by Hackage 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

#234: track installed files to allow uninstall ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by Jim Stuttard): cc jims(a)stuttard.org -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/234#comment:15> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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