Re: Making cabal-install SSL capable

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

On 6 May 2015 at 17:43, Gershom B wrote:

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I’m less certain about the use of ProgramDB — the documentation suggests it will only be populated from command line flags in the “configure” step, or from .cabal files. Since upload/download do not take place in such settings, I don’t think it will contain useful information yet. So it might be the right approach to use it, but it would also require, I suspect, modifying other parts of the cabal-install executable to populate it properly?

You may need to use a separate ProgramDb (populated at runtime) just for curl/wget and friends. The point is that we already have some code for locating executables that supports setting program locations on command line ('--with-PROG-path') and in the config file, so it'd be nice to reuse it.

The saved program configuration is not serialized in `dist/setup-config`, [1] so it must be regenerated at runtime every time, anyway. [1]. https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/Cabal/Distribution/Simple.hs#L4... -- Thomas Tuegel