#524: support file, directory and url targets for packages and .cabal files ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Currently the `cabal` program supports two ways to specify a package. One is implicitly to look in the current directory for a .cabal file. The other is a package name (actually a dependency) which we look for in the current set of repositories. We can imagine adding more. We could: * specify the file name of a .cabal file, eg to target an unpacked package in another directory * specify the directory name and look in that directory for a .cabal file * specify the file name or url of a `.tar.gz` package For example: {{{ cabal list ../some/other/dir/ cabal info http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/xmonad.cabal cabal install http://haskell.org/cabal/dev/Cabal-1.7.2.tar.gz cabal install ./demo/ }}} The case `cabal info http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/xmonad.cabal` is very much like the `lscabal` program that was uploaded to hackage recently so apparently it is useful. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/524 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects