#213: allow wildcards in data-files or extra-source-files? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: normal => easy (<4 hours) * milestone: => Cabal-1.6 -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/213#comment:1> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

#213: allow wildcards in data-files or extra-source-files? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): Done, though not heavily tested: {{{ Thu Jun 26 18:14:24 BST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * Add simple file name globbing (*) to data-files and extra-source-files }}} I've not added it to `c-sources`. We can change that if we think it's important. For example in `happs-tutorial.cabal`: {{{ Extra-Source-Files: runServer.sh templates/*.st static/tutorial.css static/HAppSTutorialLogo.png }}} which is considerably neater than the previous long list. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/213#comment:3> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

#213: allow wildcards in data-files or extra-source-files? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): {{{ Tue Jul 29 16:26:24 BST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * Fix the semantics of the simple file globbing to be sane I realised when I started to document it that the behaviour was not terribly consistent or sensible. The meaning now is: The limitation is that * wildcards are only allowed in place of the file name, not in the directory name or file extension. In particular, wildcards do not include directories contents recursively. Furthermore, if a wildcard is used it must be used with an extension, so "data-files: data/*" is not allowed. When matching a wildcard plus extension, a file's full extension must match exactly, so "*.gz" matches "foo.gz" but not "foo.tar.gz". The reason for providing only a very limited form of wildcard is to concisely express the common case of a large number of related files of the same file type without making it too easy to accidentally include unwanted files. Tue Jul 29 16:40:50 BST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * File globs must match at least one file or it's an error. Tue Jul 29 16:59:20 BST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org> * Document the wildcard behaviour in data-files and extra-source-files fields }}} I'm still not completely sure about the semantics of matching file extensions. Currently `*.gz` matches `foo.gz` but not `foo.tar.gz`, on the theory that `foo.tar.gz` has the extension `tar.gz` and that's not the same as the extension `gz`. The problem with this, apart from the above example is things like `foo-1.0.gz` where the full extensions is `0.gz` and so again would not be matched by `*.gz`. The alternative I suppose would be to match any of the list of extensions. So for example `foo-1.0.1.tar.gz` has the extension list `["gz", "tar.gz", "1.tar.gz", "0.1.tar.gz"] and we'd match `*.gz` by checking if `gz` was a member of that extension list which of course it is. Opinions? -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/213#comment:5> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects