Re: be friendlier to user (was Re: What's next?)

On 2013-09-07 at 09:00:47 +0200, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: [...]

2. Would be nice for cabal build somehow check that 'ghc --make' can't access files not present in .cabal file.

That way amount of packages with missing uploaded tests could be shunken down.

Otherwise we have fun situation. github repos have CI hooks, but 'cabal sdist' result is unusable.

I guess the simplest would be to copy/symlink part of sorce tree into temp dir and run 'ghc --make' there.

sounds like https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/1455