April 2011 - cabal-devel

[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] #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] #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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[Hackage] #821: Add support for Apache license
by Hackage 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

#821: Add support for Apache license ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: bos | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I have several projects licensed under the Apache license due to upstream dependencies, but Cabal doesn't know about it. This would be good to add for e.g. license compatibility checkers (I believe Galois has such a tool). -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/821> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #817: "main-is" misparsed in if/else, only by sdist
by Hackage 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

#817: "main-is" misparsed in if/else, only by sdist ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: jeffwheeler | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.0.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- An if/else block which sets the main-is value for an executable based on a flag is misparsed when running "cabal sdist" (it's parsed correctly when running "cabal install"). Upon failure, it appears that it's looking for a filename that is the two main-is options concatenated together. E.g., I get the error "cabal: HackerMain.hsMain.hs doesn't exist". The problematic bit looks like: if flag(hacking) main-is: HackerMain.hs else main-is: Main.hs My entire config can be found on hpaste: http://hpaste.org/44939/yicabal (problematic lines around 268). -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/817> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #813: Cabal should warn if the Cabal-Version range is too lax
by Hackage 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

#813: Cabal should warn if the Cabal-Version range is too lax ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.1.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I have a Cabal file that contains the line {{{ Cabal-Version: >=1.6 }}} and then a test section: {{{ Test-Suite test-mypkg }}} Cabal should issue a warning like: {{{ Test-Suite feature requires Cabal-Version: >=1.10. Your Cabal version range ">=1.6" is too lax. }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/813> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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patch applied (cabal): "Fix the GHC HEAD build: Don't use deprecated catch function"
by Ian Lynagh 23 May '11

23 May '11

Tue Apr 26 16:20:15 PDT 2011 Ian Lynagh <igloo(a)earth.li> * Fix the GHC HEAD build: Don't use deprecated catch function We could make this conditional, to support old GHC versions, but I don't think it is worth the cost to support 6.8. By the time this Cabal is released, you will need at least 6.12 (if not higher) to build the GHC it comes with. M ./Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.hs -2 +5 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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darcs patch: Correct spelling surpress -> suppress
by Ben Millwood 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

1 patch for repository http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install: Sat Apr 30 12:17:30 BST 2011 Ben Millwood <haskell(a)benmachine.co.uk> * Correct spelling surpress -> suppress

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patch applied (cabal): "Add a type signature for getPrefixDirRel on Windows"
by Ian Lynagh 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Wed Apr 27 07:58:35 PDT 2011 Ian Lynagh <igloo(a)earth.li> * Add a type signature for getPrefixDirRel on Windows M ./Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.hs +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=cabal;a=darcs_commitdiff;h=…

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