On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:55 -0800, brad clawsie wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:35:11AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
By the way, if you have several common deps it's perfectly ok to factor them out like this:
Flag splitBase Description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package.
Library Build-Depends: network, HTTP, HTTP-Simple, MissingH, time>=1.1.1
if flag(splitBase) Build-Depends: base >= 3, containers else Build-Depends: base < 3
these look suspiciously like the deps to my own module that i uploaded last night to be in compliance for 6.8.1!
Yep :-) Who needs a release announcement when there's the hackage RSS feed? http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss
thanks for cleaning it up duncan and in the future i will follow this example.
a slight aside - why are .cabal files not "in haskell"?
It's a slightly long story, but basically not being turing complete means the description can be read and interpreted according to context, not just executed. Afterall, we don't just want to install packages, we also want to translate them into native packages. Duncan