On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Brent Yorgey
Hi everyone,
I'm working on some improvements to 'cabal init', the biggest of which is looking at imports in source files to guess an initial list of dependencies to populate the 'Build-depends:' field. I wanted to get some feedback on a design decision: what to do when we find multiple packages providing the same module?
While cabal init is something I use, I would prefer to have a separate tool for calculating my build-depends field. Something that could suggest things for an existing cabal project, ideally. Then I could run that regularly during development to help me determine what my build-deps should be and cabal init could suggest I run it (or run it for me). While I'm suggesting features I would like, wouldn't it be great if cabal used the plugin RFC that Simon came up with? http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg92770.html I think that interface is a great way to unify the tools that have sprung up around cabal such as cabal-dev and cab.
I suppose (b) seems most sensible.
I concur. Jason