2009/2/8 Duncan Coutts
Another alternative is to not treat it like a meta-package and instead of adding the world meta-package to the list of packages to resolve for, we add all the world entries to the list instead. So it would be equivalent to:
$ cabal install $(cat ./world.list)
I think that alternative is probably the easiest/cleanest. So essentially, before calling installWithPlanner we need to check if "world" is in the UnresolvedDeps list and, if so, replace it with the list of packages from the world file. I suppose this will also require a check in hackage-scripts/Unpack.unpackPackage to prevent uploading a package called "world". About IO errors when updating the world file: At the moment they are considered as non-fatal (ie. printed by chattyTry), is that ok? Peter