On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 16:05 +0300, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:
Hi,
I have few more questions, I couldn't find answer on my own, even if they mostly seem silly :-) If there's resolutions requiring coding, I'll try to follow up with patches.
* Are extended fields going to be part of public interface (HEAD Cabal doesn't warn for fields starting "x-")?
They probably should be, just as a [(Name, Value)] style format.
* Could we document what's allowed format/character set for file specified by license-file? (cabal2wix needs to make rtf from the text to show it during install - I'd like to know if that's going to be sensibly possible.)
We should say that .cabal files and the license file are UTF8. But then we need to make that true too ;-)
* Is ghc-pkg supposed to handle license-file field? GHC documents it, referring to Cabal docs, but Cabal doesn't generate it for installed-pkg-config. (Maybe because license file is not installed?)
No idea. It looks like it does not contain the license file in the InstalledPackageInfo which is the structure ghc-pkg uses. Do you think we really need that? We can install the license file even without ghc-pkg knowing about it.
* Are defaultMain-helpers supposed to turn relative paths from commandline into absolute ones? (I ran into this problem with Alex' Setup.lhs, which changes working directory for copying files.)
No idea. Can you be more specific? Duncan