Re: cabal question / feature request

Johannes Waldmann writes:

Dear all.

is there a way to get the preprocessed sources of a project from Cabal? Is this what "Setup copy" is for? (I guess not.)

If I do "runhaskell Setup.hs sdist", I get a tarball with the original sources (macros not expanded).

If I do "runhaskell Setup.hs haddock" it seems the preprocessed sources are built - but then deleted, so I only get what haddock makes of them (and this I don't like - I need more control over haddock options, so I need to run it outside cabal.)

Can I get the desired effect by doing Setup configure for hugs and then Setup install? (Would this install preprocessed sources?)

What do you really want to do with these sources? Maybe a hook of some kind is the better way? peace, isaac