22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
11:58 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:52:30PM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
This seems like really cool work, but what do folks think about adding OS-specific items like this to Cabal. My stance has been that we should keep such tools external to Cabal, layered on top of Cabal so as to not clutter Cabal too much, and to make Cabal's interface to the outside world as good as possible.
FWIW, I agree. Also, having the rpm code built with cabal will only ensure it keeps compiling. I won't necessarily keep it correct, and in my experience it is also common to see "temporary" (error "unhandled case")s appear in such situations, where many contributors are not interested in the rpm code, and are unable to easily test it. Thanks Ian