Re: required fields in Cabal

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:55:48 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:50:44PM +0200, Krasimir Angelov wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:56:08 -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:

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license :: License, -- OR? licenseFile :: FilePath,

By the way I have half-baked tool that generates MSI installers from Cabal packages for Windows. Since the installer shows a dialog with license information and I Agree/I Disagree buttons, I have generate some license description text. I wonder whether it will be possible to generate the text from license field, some text template and maintainer, author, ... fields. I am not well acquainted with all supported licenses and I don't know whether I will have enough information in the package description. Any thoughts?

The contents of the file named in license-file should be what you want, no? Maybe copyright needs to be added as well.

Yes, if it is present. I wonder whether it will be possible if I have only license field.