Re: portability and .cabal files?

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:42 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:

I guess you could indicate that a package won't build in some configuration using the buildable field. Hackage ought to learn to use that too.

Oh you mean we should say: if os(windows) -- this package is known not to work on windows buildable: false and then cabal should fail on configuration, and cabal-install should not consider depending on that package in that configuration? Duncan