#274: Add a 'build from sdist tarball' feature (aka distcheck) ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.8 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by Saizan): so the UI would be a new command named distcheck? so that "cabal distcheck": 1) runs "cabal sdist" 2) untars the package in a fresh directory 3) runs "cabal install" in it and it should support most of the options of cabal sdist + cabal install(without a package argument)? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/274#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects