On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 01:58:14PM +0100, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:
is there a reason why the function 'fieldGet' of 'FieldDescr' in 'Distribution.ParseUtils' formats only the contents of the field and not also the field name?
Having the field 'build-type: Simple', then 'fieldGet' only formats the part 'Simple' and the 'build-type: ' part is formated in 'Distribution.PackageDescription.PrettyPrint'.
This makes it harder to give certain fields a nesting without special casing in 'Distribution.PackageDescription.PrettyPrint'.
If the complete field would be formated by 'fieldGet', then nesting could be nicely integrated into the 'listField' and 'commaListField' functions of 'Distribution.ParseUtils'.
I have now created a pull request for this change on github. Is github the right place for doing this for cabal? Greetings, Daniel