26 Aug
2013
26 Aug
'13
2:44 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:06 AM, harry
John Lato-2 wrote
This requested feature seems to overlap with the build-tools section, however I don't think cabal will attempt to auto-install executables listed there.
I think build-depends and build-tools should be kept separate, but maybe if an executable listed in build-tools isn't found, cabal could look for a package with the same name on hackage and attempt to install that first?
I'd forgotten about build-tools. Does it actually do anything?
It checks that the executable is available on the current path, and that it's within the given version bounds. I think that's all it does.