On 25/04/2008, at 12:49 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:32 +0700, Peter Gammie wrote:
Does this work?
The LICENCE file would actually have to exist at ../ relative to the location of the .cabal file.
It does, that's what gets copied to the wrong place.
sdist would fail of course since no files to go into the tarball can lie outside of the project directory.
I don't use sdist.
On install, I think Cabal copies it to the parent of the correct directory.
Right, it'd copy it to $distdir/../LICENCE
Yes, that's what I'm worried about. This semantics seems wrong to me; the licence is a file, nothing more. I feel you should copy it like so (excuse my UNIX): cp $LICENCE $DEST_DIR/`basename $LICENCE` ... but feel free to do whatever makes the most sense to you, of course.
I use this short hand so I don't have 10 BSD3's lying around.
I would not recommend doing this. Use a symlink instead.
I'd love to, but darcs doesn't understand symlinks. So I guess I'm back to having 10 BSD3's. BTW this is an idiom I inherited from Herr Bringert, who might now want to adjust his many .cabals... cheers peter