That sounds like a solution that would work. An alternative is to use the hooks available in cabal to install the completion file immediately on 'cabal install'. See the cabal docs [1] for more details. The downside is that you don't have a way to specify dependencies for your Setup.hs [2], so the hooks have to be pretty simple (you can basically only use base and ghc's bootlibs reliably). Regards, Erik [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.20.0.2/docs/Distribution-Simple.h... [2] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/948 On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Jacob Stanley wrote:

Hi All

I'm looking for a good way to deploy a bash completion script somewhere appropriate for the given operating system.

Has anyone tackled this before? I was considering packaging the script in to the install using cabal data files, then having an 'install--bash-completion' option that tries to detect the right place to install it depending on the OS.

Cheers Jacob

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