Oops, I guess I misinterpreted "package description". It did sound a little dangerous ;-).
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:52 -0500, Ryan Newton wrote:Yikes! Don't actually modify the .cabal file on disk. I meant just
> Victory! Thanks!
>
> Well.. mostly victory ;-). I've got it in a state where the .cabal
> file rewriting works if "cabal configure" is called separately from
> "cabal build/install" so that the latter reads the modified
> configuration file.
modify the data structure that gets passed around.
Right.
> As for portability... I'm afraid I don't personally do any
> development on Windows. Presumably the goal is for hackage packages
> to work without requiring Cygwin/make/etc?
Duncan