Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:45 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi,
I like Cabal. There are a few things that I'm used to from autotools which I can't seem to find: dry-runs, uninstall and a "make distcheck" equivalent.
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uninstall Removes all files and directories created by install
Ditto. This is really necessary since otherwise I'll have to build a Debian package anyway before I can install the Cabal package. Getting software of my system is almost as important as getting it on there in the first place. Prevents my system from deteriorating over time.
I think we didn't include this feature deliberately for some reason. Isaac can you remember?
It was possibly because I objected to it; although now I can't remember exactly what it was I diskliked so much about it. Possibly just the fact that I think this is the job of the system's package manager, not Cabal. But the same argument applies to 'setup install' of course. So to be clear, I don't object to uninstall any more, if someone wants to go ahead and implement it that's fine by me. Cheers, Simon