October 2011 - cabal-devel

[Hackage] #857: Decide what to do about licenses
by Hackage 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

#857: Decide what to do about licenses ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Currently you can specify some partial info about a license in the .cabal file. It's not exhaustive and does not cover all licenses. It seems originally intended so that common licenses will be given the same name (so no confusion over "bsd" =? "BSD"). There are a number of outstanding requests for new licenses to be listed (#854 BSD2 & ISC, #821 Apache). This is based on users expecting that most licenses they might want should be listed. The current alternative of course is that they just list it as `OtherLicense`. So this all comes down to what do we want the license field for, what is it's purpose, does it have any semantics? Currently we can't really say that it has any reliable semantics (even if the info were accurate), it's really just a way to stop people spelling "GPL" wrong. It also serves a purpose to indicate what are recommended licenses, to work against license proliferation. So, should we move to a more accurate license system where you can express more precisely the licensing terms? Apart from listing more licenses this would mean we have to tackle: * multiple licenses (conjunctive): the distributor has to comply with multiple licenses, e.g. because different parts of the code have different licenses. * dual licensing (disjunctive): the distributor gets to pick which license to use * GPL open ended versions: The GPL recommends that authors license under terms like "Version X or any later version". This is a special kind of dual licensing, it's the infinite disjunction of all later versions of the license and of course those later versions are mostly unknown so it'd have to be handled specially. Then there's the issue in the BSD licenses that there's hardly any standard BSD3 license, people make up all kinds of variations. The 2-clause license is not actually (properly) listed by the FSF or the OSI (bizarrely the OSI has it listed but with the wrong text). -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/857> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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cabal init patches
by Brent Yorgey 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hi all, I've finally gotten around to working on some improvements to cabal init. The first three listed patches are minor improvements. The last is a bigger addition, which tries to guess the right package dependencies to list in the build-depends field. Feedback welcome. -Brent 4 patches for repository http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal: Fri Oct 14 16:21:34 EDT 2011 Brent Yorgey <byorgey(a)cis.upenn.edu> * init: improve prompt: 'homepage' field is not for repos. Fri Oct 14 16:22:10 EDT 2011 Brent Yorgey <byorgey(a)cis.upenn.edu> * init: improve prompt: enclose y/n in parens Fri Oct 14 16:22:30 EDT 2011 Brent Yorgey <byorgey(a)cis.upenn.edu> * init: see whether source directory 'src' exists. Tue Oct 25 01:09:00 EDT 2011 Brent Yorgey <byorgey(a)cis.upenn.edu> * init: guess at filling in deps in the build-depends: field

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[hackage-server] Support Cabal-1.12
by Bas van Dijk 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi Duncan, Hackage-server builds successfully against Cabal-1.12.0 which comes with ghc-7.2.1. The attached patch extends the version range. Regards, Bas

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Package logo's
by Bas van Dijk 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi Duncan, Attached is the package logo patch I was working on. * Show optional package logo on package page If a package has a logo.svg or logo.png file (all lower-case) in their package root then that logo is shown on the package page. SVG takes preference over PNG. Currently logos are served using the existing PackageContents feature. We could use a dedicated resource like "package/:package/logo" but this works fine for now. Regards, Bas

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patch applied (cabal): "Fix source repo subdir name after cabal->Cabal dir rename"
by Duncan Coutts 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Sun Oct 23 14:44:25 PDT 2011 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)community.haskell.org> * Fix source repo subdir name after cabal->Cabal dir rename M ./Cabal/Cabal.cabal -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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patch applied (cabal): "Add a source package index cache to speed up reading"
by Duncan Coutts 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Sun Oct 23 14:32:53 PDT 2011 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)community.haskell.org> * Add a source package index cache to speed up reading e.g. about 3x faster for cabal info pkgname M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/IndexUtils.hs -51 +252 M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Update.hs -1 +2 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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patch applied (cabal): "Add package checks for benchmarks" and 4 others
by Duncan Coutts 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Wed Oct 12 13:16:04 PDT 2011 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> * Add package checks for benchmarks Refactor duplicate names check to avoid having to manually write all O(n^2) possible collision cases between executables, test suites, and benchmarks. M ./Cabal/Distribution/PackageDescription/Check.hs -20 +56 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=… Thu Oct 13 15:56:15 PDT 2011 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> * Implement 'cabal bench' command The only implement benchmark interface so far is exitcode-stdio-1.0, which forwards the output of the benchmark executable being run to the parent process' stdout/stderr. M ./Cabal/Cabal.cabal +1 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs -2 +28 A ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Bench.hs M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/InstallDirs.hs -1 +4 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs +62 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/UserHooks.hs -3 +14 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs +10 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=… Thu Oct 13 16:21:09 PDT 2011 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> * Add unit test for 'cabal bench' command-line flags A ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/BenchmarkOptions/ A ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/BenchmarkOptions/BenchmarkOptions.cabal A ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/BenchmarkOptions/Check.hs A ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/BenchmarkOptions/Setup.hs A ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/BenchmarkOptions/test-BenchmarkOptions.hs M ./Cabal/tests/PackageTests/PackageTester.hs -1 +15 M ./Cabal/tests/suite.hs -2 +4 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=… Thu Oct 13 16:28:47 PDT 2011 Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> * Fail gracefully if 'cabal bench' is run before 'cabal build' M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Bench.hs +7 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=… Sun Oct 23 14:39:24 PDT 2011 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)community.haskell.org> * Bump versions of Cabal and cabal-install Latest cabal-install requires latest Cabal due to api addition M ./Cabal/Cabal.cabal -1 +1 M ./cabal-install/cabal-install.cabal -2 +2 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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patch applied (cabal): "Uploading build reports shouldn't fail if there are no reports"
by Duncan Coutts 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Sun Oct 16 07:38:19 PDT 2011 Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower(a)hotmail.com> * Uploading build reports shouldn't fail if there are no reports M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Upload.hs -11 +14 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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patch applied (cabal): "Allow Haddock to be configured from the 'install' command" and 1 others
by Duncan Coutts 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Sat Oct 15 10:01:01 PDT 2011 Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower(a)hotmail.com> * Allow Haddock to be configured from the 'install' command M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Install.hs -12 +14 M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Setup.hs -10 +28 M ./cabal-install/Main.hs -7 +7 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=… Sun Oct 16 04:08:52 PDT 2011 Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower(a)hotmail.com> * Add a (substituted) flag to allow configuration of Haddock's --use-contents flag M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Haddock.hs -6 +14 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/InstallDirs.hs +1 M ./Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs +11 M ./cabal-install/Distribution/Client/Setup.hs -1 +2 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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patch applied (cabal): "Rename the cabal directory to Cabal"
by Ian Lynagh 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Sun Oct 23 08:10:02 PDT 2011 Ian Lynagh <igloo(a)earth.li> * Rename the cabal directory to Cabal Makes things a little simpler in GHC's build system if libraries are in the same directory as their name. ./cabal -> ./Cabal M ./README -1 +1 M ./ghc-packages -1 +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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