[cc-ed to libraries, as they seem to be more appropriate for cabal topics]

Some time ago I've tweaked cabal to start ghci with package options given in the .cabal file.

Perhaps it might be useful for someone:

yes, i'd like to see something like this in cabal. cf also http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/msg11101.html claus

module Main where import Distribution.Simple import Distribution.Simple.Configure import Distribution.Simple.LocalBuildInfo import System import System.Process import System.Exit import Monad

main= do args <- getArgs -- check args to launch ghci when (length args > 0) $ do when ((args!!0) == "ghci") $ do lbi <- getPersistBuildConfig let packageArgs = (concat.concat) [ [" -package ", showPackageId pkg] | pkg <- packageDeps lbi ] system("ghci " ++ packageArgs) exitWith ExitSuccess defaultMain -- fallback to defaultMain

Then you can use ./setup ghci to start ghci It is incomplete but should work for default packages..

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