#326: Cabal should support Cabal-version-dependent Setup.hs ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): Replying to [comment:6 claus]:
Ah, I see - the macros are only temporarily available while building. I had assumed that Cabal would generate them permanently for each package, so that not only cabal-install could profit from them.
Cabal makes them available while building, a macro for testing the version of each dependency. It's not just cabal-install, it's done in the Cabal lib. I'm not sure what you're suggesting as an alternative, that we install the .h files too? I guess that would let packages that build without using Cabal to use the version macros of packages that were built with Cabal. Is that what you mean? Is that a major advantage? The problem with using these macros for compiling Setup.hs is that that would only help cabal-install and would actively hinder everyone else. `runghc Setup` would stop working. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/326#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects