#213: allow wildcards in data-files or extra-source-files? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Some packages end up with very very long fields for data-files or extra- source-files. Is this a problem? Should we allow some kind of globing to make it a bit less verbose? {{{ extra-source-files: cbits/*.h c-sources: cbits/*.c }}} On the other hand, there is a danger with globing that you pick up too many files. Perhaps we can counter that by making the globing rather restrictive, like no subdirectory recursion, and only allowing *'s in the final directory component, so no {{{data/*/*}}} patterns. Is there a sweet spot that allows conciseness without including too much accidentally? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/213 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects