Re: cabal-install and executable dependencies

Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Progr...

Ah, a hard-coded list :-) So I would like to propose that cabal should install build-tool dependencies automatically if it can find them on hackage, and that package authors should actually start listing them. I started this thread after numerous failed installations of packages which depended on some undeclared executable. (e.g. happstack, which has depends on hsx2hs, which in turns depends on happy, but none of this is declared in the cabal files.) -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/cabal-install-and-executable-dependenci... Sent from the Haskell - Libraries mailing list archive at Nabble.com.