On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 07:00:49PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 12:10 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Related to this, there'e no way to install only the docs or only the binaries when both are built, as far as I know. This isn't a huge problem, but it ought to be easy to fix and it would be nice to have.
Oh, another thing that would make my life a lot easier is a flag for whether or not to install the license file.
It would have made things slightly simpler for me when building separate -doc and -dev Debian packages for Cabal libraries, and it also would mean we could do the right thing in GHC's "make install-docs".
cabal install --docs --everything-else
What would the user interface be? Are there any other categories than docs?
OTTOMH, there's a tree of things like: all docs haddock-interfaces html license binaries library executables executable=foo executable=bar although we don't necessarily have to be as granular as that.
Is it additive, subtractive? Can the default be explained in terms of the new proposed flags?
As long as docs, license and binaries can be (de)selected individually I don't really mind. If you want a concrete suggestion, we could have --foo and --no-foo for each thing, with the default being --all and the commandline being processed left-to-right, e.g. cabal install --no-haddock-interfaces --docs --no-html would install all (which wouldn't actually contain anything) docs (which wouldn't actually contain anything) haddock-interfaces license everything under binaries Thanks Ian