Have you tried?

cabal unpack <package-name>

Thanks if I understand rightly, that 'cabal unpack' be used to build the shell script I have in mind. But I really want an option to Cabal to request it to install the source code of a package in a source-tree edition of the installed binary package. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Colin Paul Adams [mailto:colin@colina.demon.co.uk] Sent: 23 March 2010 11:35 AM To: Chris Dornan Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal source installation Have you tried? cabal unpack <package-name> -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire