On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:49:10PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 07:30 +0100, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
Hi,
Would it be worthwile to reimplement Distribution/Client/Init/Licenses.hs using a TH macro that parses and loads license files at compile time? IIUC, currently one has to use a Perl script to add new licenses.
We cannot have cabal-install use TH, because that language extension is GHC-only.
I suggest we change it so that the license files are external data files. Then we just use string substitution.
I agree using external data files would be better. I just stole the code for the licenses from the old mkcabal project, and decided improving it to use external data files was a "nice to have" feature I didn't end up getting around to. Mikhail, can you add a feature request ticket for this on the bug tracker? I might get around to it at some point but in the meantime anyone else is obviously welcome to have a go (should be a nice easy project for someone wanting to get their feet wet). -Brent