On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 09:22 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:34:43AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:42 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
I guess you could indicate that a package won't build in some configuration using the buildable field. Hackage ought to learn to use that too.
Oh you mean we should say:
if os(windows) -- this package is known not to work on windows buildable: false
and then cabal should fail on configuration, and cabal-install should not consider depending on that package in that configuration?
It's not ideal, because buildable is a per-component thing, but I think Cabal already fails if none of the components is buildable.
Well, for dependencies we only consider the library component anyways. I don't think we currently have a way to specify dependencies on an executable provided by a Cabal package.