Hi,
I pretty much agree with what you said, and I am eager for a Cabal
with a working sdist (and support to build a profiling version of the
package). I think some of these things are fixed, or at least were
discussed, but I am not sure how to update the Cabal I have (this is
the one that was installed with GHC).
Just one comment about the naming convention:
On 5/11/05, Duncan Coutts
... So if you've got a cabal package with fields:
name: FooBar version: 1.2.3
Then the tarball should be "FooBar-1.2.3.tar.gz" (or .zip or .tar.bz2).
Many packages could be distributed in more than one flavour, e.g. source, GHC 6.4 binaries, GHC-6.2 binaries etc. There could also be versions for different platforms. I like the convention FooBar-1.2.3-src.tar.gz for packages that contain source code, but I am not sure how should one name other packages.... I would expect that all of those would extract to a directoy like you suggested: FooBar-1.2.3. Unless of course I misunderstood your post and you were just referring to distributing source code? -Iavor