Re: patch applied (cabal): Make the GetOpt help text fit in 80 cols by wrapping the description

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 20:37 +0200, Thomas Schilling wrote:

On 23 aug 2007, at 23.41, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Thu Aug 23 12:30:15 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts * Make the GetOpt help text fit in 80 cols by wrapping the description And reduce the padding slightly. The configure help text look slightly less terrible now, though we've still got too many long flags and short flags with long arg names so there's not really enough width for the description so it wraps in too many cases.

M ./Distribution/GetOpt.hs -26 +35

I didn't look too closely at the code, but is there a reason why you chose to implement a custom version instead of using the pretty printer?

I was trying to make minimal changes to the existing code which is self contained and does not use a pretty printer. Duncan