--- Isaac Jones
Main-is must be a filepath because the module name is likely to be "Main" and the path is not derivable from the module name.
Yes.
The "modules" field is module names because the system is kinda smart about finding the modules, and I hope to make it smarter. Right now, it looks for .hs and .lhs files, in the future, it'll look for Module.happy (or whatever happy's suffix is) and maybe Module.hscpp. The point is that it'll look for the files and know what kind of preprocessing is necessary just by the module names. If I recall, this is what hmake does, and I like the behavior.
In the future, I hope to deprecate the "modules" field for the "Simple" tools and it'll just chase down dependencies from Exposed-Modules and Main-is.
If we change the "modules" field format you can still use "exposed-modules" to build the package.
The "c-sources" also uses list of file paths. When using the module names it is easier to determine the file names. Maybe it's better to use module names only for "exposed-modules" field. I also propose to rename "modules" to "hs-sources".
So in the future, like I said, I want to deprecate "modules" a bit, but then again, I want a new field for random files to include in the sdist, like documentation.
Why don't add "sources" field which will include both c-sources and hs-sources. The sources field can also include .html, .bmp, .gif and any other files. The file suffix is enough to determine what to do with it. The package can contain .hs files which are just examples or test modules. In such case they can be added to "sources" field but will be unreachable from the dependency tree. I have an idea about tools like happy. Each tool, distriuted with Cabal, can define rule like "*.y -> *.hs". That means: "this tool is used to compile *.y file to *.hs". Using the file suffix and the "build-dependency" Cabal can automatically determine how to compile the file. I don't know whether this idea was already introduced in the thread. Cheers, Krasimir __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail