Re: multiple cabal files in one directory?

13 Jan 2011

      On 13 January 2011 17:55, Henning Thielemann
 wrote:
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Duncan Coutts wrote:
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I think the simplest model would be as follows:
reporoot/
reporoot/pads/
reporoot/pads/pads.cabal
reporoot/pads/Language/Pads/XXX.hs
reporoot/forest/
reporoot/forest/forest.cabal
reporoot/forest/Language/Forest/XXX.hs
...
I agree that if you typically develop these two packages together but
want to be able to distribute them separately then it would be nicer
to be able to have multiple .cabal files in one directory.
Or just write
$ for dir in pads forest; do (cd $dir; cabal install); done
That's assuming the dependencies go in that order. With the next
version of cabal you will be able to say:

$ cabal install pads/ forest/

and it will work out the dependency order and install both.

Duncan