On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 05:18 +0100, Marc Weber wrote:

Hi,

I was looking for a way to add the repository location to .cabal files. I found the existing implementation.

However it's very likely that this new feature is missed. So what about showing a note when runinng sdist or such?

Eg

Note: You haven't specified a repository location. You should specify a repository location so that others can check latest changes before writing a patch. Duplicating efforts can be avoided. Try ./setup --repo-help to print some examples which you can copy into your cabal file.

Perhaps you could write us a patch that does this check, but only if there is a _darcs dir (or whatever dir git uses). That way we don't annoy people who are not using a vcs.

I really appreciate this new repository location feature! Thank you for adding it!

:-) Duncan