Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal and `main-is` field

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 07:15 -0700, Denis Bueno wrote:

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:56, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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That's because it's a bug, not a feature. :-)

Be careful of using this "feature" as we might fix it.

I've wished for this feature, and have Cabal files right now that would be cleaner with it. Is there something technically wrong or undesirable about this feature that necessitates "fixing"?

If it's supposed to work it should work consistently. It's a quirk that to support old-style .cabal files we allow build-depends but not other fields in the global section. If we do it properly we should either allow all fields there, or perhaps in an explicit "common" section or something. I hope we can address this and related limitations and quirks in the Cabal-1.8 development cycle. If you want to help out with that let me know and I can give you some pointers. Duncan