
7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
9:30 a.m.
Ross Paterson wrote:
Cabal would need to crawl over the source files to see what preprocessors are really needed.
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Yes, this is exactly what Cabal should do.
In the meantime, how about the following: In default non-verbose mode, silently memoize the list of packages that were not found. Then, only if something goes wrong, say something like: "The package failed to build. Perhaps the reason is that one of the following packages was not found:" In non-default verbose mode, behave as now. -Yitz