On 11/19/06, Dougal Stanton
Quoth Donald Bruce Stewart, nevermore,
P.S. It might even be useful to have a tool, haskell-project, which sets up all these files automatically.
I was wondering about that just the other day. Is there such an application to interrogate the user about particulars and then create a fully compliant *.cabal file?
I'm unaware of such a tool, but as far as UIs go, it should be fairly straight forward. It would be nice to have both a text mode and a GUI version. This would make an excellent project for someone just starting in Haskell who wants to make life easier for everyone (a great way to get some fame in the community). I'm imagining the tool looks at your darcs repository, asks you a few questions and then generates a .cabal file. Considering that the basic cabal file is about 10 lines or less, not counting the list of source modules, it's almost not worth writing. On the other hand, even as simple as the .cabal files are I always have to copy an existing one or check the manual because I never can remember the exact syntax. Which is how I see this tool helping. Do we have any enthusiastic people to take this on? I bet you could have something usable in less than a days worth of hacking. Jason