On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Marc Weber wrote:
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:53:43AM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
The original design of Cabal was more like Marc suggests. There was only the Setup file and no .cabal file, and my hope was that we'd build an EDSL for package configurations. Original cabal code would probably look like:
main = defaultMain defaultPackageDescription{ name="foo" , synopsys="bar"} complex, so why not just start out with Haskell, which would give us room to grow :) But there are also lots of advantages to having the .cabal file. Maybe someone can dig up the debate on the libraries mailing list from a few years back.
Anyway, with the hooks interface, you can override just about all of cabal's behavior
Sure I can. But I'd like to have it the other way round with a function: readDescription from Cabal file..
Actually, you can do this. Probably the biggest part of Cabal is a Haskell library. You can read package description or you can create a PackageDescription manually and then call some of the Cabal routines.