#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by duncan): I think we should discuss this with users a bit first. The point of the existing rather limited support for globbing is to avoid accidentally picking up more files than was intended (e.g. hidden or generated files). By limiting it to files with a common extension this risk is greatly reduced. Perhaps we could make it explicit by only doing recursive copy for directories that are listed in the data-files field with a trailing directory slash, e.g. `data-files: graphics/` -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects