#524: support file, directory and url targets for packages and .cabal files ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.10 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: very hard (<1 week) Ghcversion: | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by duncan): * status: new => closed * difficulty: hard (< 1 day) => very hard (<1 week) * resolution: => fixed * milestone: => cabal-install-0.10 Comment: Added support for: * local package directories * local cabal files * local tarballs * remote tarballs This applies to the install, fetch, info and unpack commands. Not implemented is alternate targets for the `list` command, or remote .cabal targets for the `info` command (opened as #804). {{{ Sun Feb 13 19:41:50 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * Add a new module for handling user targets This will allow us to increase the range of targets that cabal commands can support. The new ones are local directory targets, local cabal files, local tarballs and remote tarballs by URL. Also a better way of doing the special "world" target. Sun Feb 13 19:46:27 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * Partial rewrite of cabal list and info commands The new user target system requires a change in how cabal info works. Instead of just giving package names and looking them up in the available package index, we can now specify names with versions or version constraints which means we want the info to be about that version in particular. We now list many installed and available versions and mark which ones are preferred or not. Also fix a bug for packages that are only installed, not available. Sun Feb 13 19:50:09 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * New interface to the dep resolver that allows modular policy construction Allows shorter and clearer code for the various ways the resolver is used. Sun Feb 13 22:49:55 GMT 2011 Duncan Coutts * Use the new modular dep resolver interface in the various commands Also minor tweak to InstallPlan.remove }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/524#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects