13 Jan
2007
13 Jan
'07
4:04 a.m.
Remember: Cabal isn't only the build infrastructure, it's also the metadata format that tools like Hackage use. If you decide to combine data and code, you will no longer be able to manipulate the data with another tool. Visual Haskell, HackageDB, cabal2rpm, and dh_haskell are all tools that read the .cabal file and perform operations based on the package metadata. These tools would have to be Haskell interpreters if they wanted to read a .hs file and derive the package description from that. Then the way to go would be: add a target "create-editor-readable-package-description". So still now reason to do this work on your own..
This is not really a pro for cabal files IMHO. Marc