Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal parse problems

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 19:37 -0500, Vasili I. Galchin wrote:

are them some CLI switches I can enable in order to better determine what "parse error" is??

The problem is that we're using a parser that has no support for producing parse errors (Text.ParserCombinators.ReadP). The only reason we're using this parser is because it's the only one in the core libraries. Packages like parsec cannot be used in Cabal because Cabal is a core library and parsec is not. For this reason we've been considering just copying another parser module into Cabal so that we can have saner (and quicker) parsing.

Kind regards, Vasili

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Vasili I. Galchin wrote: sorrily nope, Brian ...

For what it's worth, Brian was right, you cannot have a trailing comma in a list field. Perhaps there was an additional error in the file that we could not see in the bit you posted. Duncan