[Hackage] #722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories
#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- It should be possible to use the `Data-Files` directive to include whole directories (recursively) in source distributions. In many cases it's impossible or cumbersome to list all of the files one would like to install, and it seems to me that nobody should have to do that if what they really mean is, "install everything in that-data-dir/." In implementation terms, this doesn't strike me as too tricky; after the wildcard parsing that already happens, detect whether the files to be copied are in fact directories and copy them recursively as such. I'm more than willing to hack on this. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by duncan): I think we should discuss this with users a bit first. The point of the existing rather limited support for globbing is to avoid accidentally picking up more files than was intended (e.g. hidden or generated files). By limiting it to files with a common extension this risk is greatly reduced. Perhaps we could make it explicit by only doing recursive copy for directories that are listed in the data-files field with a trailing directory slash, e.g. `data-files: graphics/` -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by ezyang): I will note, for whatever it's worth, that this design policy has lead me to write scripts that do regular style globbing and convert it into something I can place in my Cabal file. :-) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by cygnus): I would support a trailing slash option. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: cygnus | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.12 Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * milestone: => Cabal-1.12 Comment: See also #794. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:4 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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