On 23 September 2005 10:47, Ross Paterson wrote:

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:37:52AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

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On 23 September 2005 10:20, Ross Paterson wrote:

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Module dependency calculation would have to be done in the build environment, not at the source, because the set of modules used may be system-dependent. And you'd still need to specify exposed-modules.

Yes, that's what I had in mind. The calculation of other-modules would happen when .installed-pkg-info is generated.

I forgot extra-source-files, which is needed in the source system and has to include all the files not mentioned elsewhere that might be needed on any build system. Without other-modules you'd need it more often, and it would be harder to compute.

So let's do the second best thing, and automatically check the value of the other-modules field if appropriate tools are available (GHC or hmake). Cheers, Simon