#613: Update .cabal/config along with cabal-install ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ When cabal-install is upgraded, it sometimes gains new features with corresponding lines in the default .cabal/config; however, the existing .cabal/config is not updated. One way of updating it would be to make it, at every invocation of cabal- install, rewrite the file using a merger of the current configuration and the default one. There are some issues with this - most particularily, user-written comments in the file should be preserved, without this stopping cabal- install from inserting its own comments for (disabled) new features, or causing duplication of comments. None of this is particularily hard to imagine a solution for, but in the interests of avoiding priming, I won't write down my own suggested solutions here. If whoever eventually decides to try fixing this explains his proposed solution here, I'll chime in then. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/613 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects