Re: [Haskell-cafe] packages and QuickCheck

Ketil Malde wrote:

"Conal Elliott" writes:

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Thanks a bunch for these tips. I haven't used the flags feature of cabal before, and i don't seem to be able to get it right.

Another option might be to have the test command build via 'ghc --make' instead of Cabal - this way, you can avoid mentioning testing libraries altogether in the cabal file.

This is the approach I have often taken in the past, but it imposes somewhat of a maintenance burden because you mus tthen make sure that the ghc command line flags are kept in-sync what what you're doing in the cabal file -- -X options, packages used, etc. This becomes even more difficult if your cabal file is doing any sort of dynamic configuration.