Ulf Norell wrote:
Stefan Holdermans wrote:
One reason could be that, when distributing *sources*, you'd want the generated file to be included as well (that is, you want to regard it as a source file),
The problem with that is that someone getting the sources might get the idea that the preprocessed file is an actual source file and try to modify it (or just make sense of it, imagine someone trying to read a happy parser...).
True (although I'm not sure how much of a problem that really is). However, if one is relying on some "exotic" preprocessing, it can be really helpful for people who are just interested in getting the code up and running if they don't have to install a bunch of preprocessors first. As a case in point, (a long time ago) we distributed Frob (Robot programming layer on top of FRP) both with Greencard sources and the output from Greencard for that very reason. But maybe this is less of an issue with Cabal taking a lot of pain out of building and installing?
Including parts of dist in the tarball makes it clear that what you get is not a vanilla source distribution.
Yes, that's possibly a better way of doing it. As long as there is a way of generating preprocessed pure Haskell for distribution. Best, /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science and Information Technology The University of Nottingham nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.