Duncan Coutts:
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:01 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christian Maeder wrote:
In order to avoid several #ifdefs (maybe differently or suboptimal given) in user sources (to achieve 1.) such #ifdefs (or wrappers) should be part of the libraries (including the documentation for the license differences)!
Can Cabal-1.2's flag capability manage such a task?
I don't think I understand the problem clearly enough to say. Perhaps someone can try explaining it in more detail.
Maybe I am reading this the wrong way, but didn't we say we DON'T want to build the readline package with libedit, but rather have a separate editline package. A fundamental reason for avoiding building the same library interface with alternatively readline and editline was that the license of that package would then have to change on a build per build basis. I think we concluded that (a) that would be confusing and (b) is not support by Cabal's package meta information. Manuel