On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tobias Dammers
And, regarding feature toggles, this bit in the Cabal FAQ baffles me a little:
Question: I like to let the user enable extended functionality using a Cabal flag. Is this the right way?
Answer: Certainly not. Since other packages can distinguish packages only according to their name and their version, it is not a good idea to allow different APIs for the same package version. Cumbersome as it is you have to move extra features to a separate package.
Moving the features to a separate package wouldn't really solve anything AFAICT, because I'd still have to bring them together somehow.
This is the same as the variants problem with MacPorts: you can't have another port depend on a variant, because then dependency calculation (already nightmarish) gets a combinatorial explosion on top of all the existing problems. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net