#58: allow darcs repo to be specified in cabal file ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: ijones | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.4 Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.2.1 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by kolmodin): I'd like a tool that downloads the scm version of a cabal package. very simple yet I'd find it much useful. {{{ cabal-source get zlib }}} should run darcs and give me the zlib repo in the current dir. Nice... About knowing which kind of repo it is, lets have a look what other tools does. Layman is an application to help the user get and update his Gentoo overlays (extra stuff not covered in portage). It uses a description file, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman- global.txt . A short snippet from the xml: {{{ type = "darcs" src = "http://www.haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/" }}} It mentions both the type of scm, and the location. Another alternative would be to just write an URI, possibly combining the tool and the source location: {{{ darcs+http://www.haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/ }}} That would require us to invent the URI scheme when the scm itself doesn't provide such names itself. I guess writing both the type and the location in separate fields would be easiest. Either way, I really think the type of the tool to use must be described or we will not be able to do much cool stuff. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/58#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects