8 Dec
2010
8 Dec
'10
5:12 p.m.
On 8 December 2010 17:02, Sönke Hahn
Hi!
If you write a cabal setup script with user hooks, is there a way to tell cabal-install that the setup script itself depends on some package from hackage? (The dependency would be cabal-macosx in my case.)
No, the Cabal spec has no support for that. It is assumed that Setup.hs scripts have minimal dependencies, since the original idea was that these would be the first user interface, so they must compile. My plan is to move away from Setup.hs being the primary user interface and that would in principle make it possible for Setup.hs scripts to have other dependencies, however we will need to extend the Cabal specification and .cabal format to enable it. Duncan