Cabal feature request - dates in versions
Hello When developing a library I would like to have cabal files with something like: Version: 0.9.<date> where Cabal would automatically generate the exact version based on the current date (e.g. 0.9.20060422). This would be very useful for development versions of libraries. - Einar Karttunen
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:11:47PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
When developing a library I would like to have cabal files with something like:
Version: 0.9.<date>
where Cabal would automatically generate the exact version based on the current date (e.g. 0.9.20060422). This would be very useful for development versions of libraries.
setup sdist --snapshot
On 23.04 20:17, Ross Paterson wrote:
setup sdist --snapshot
Does not help with people doing: darcs get http://foo.bar/mylibrary/ runghc Setup.hs configure runghc Setup.hs build su -c 'runghc Setup.hs install' If one wants to do snapshot releases then adding the version manually is no problem. But for a head-branch in darcs/cvs/... this is problematic. - Einar Karttunen
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:14:01AM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
On 23.04 20:17, Ross Paterson wrote:
setup sdist --snapshot
Does not help with people doing:
darcs get http://foo.bar/mylibrary/ runghc Setup.hs configure runghc Setup.hs build su -c 'runghc Setup.hs install'
If one wants to do snapshot releases then adding the version manually is no problem. But for a head-branch in darcs/cvs/... this is problematic.
Perhaps you want --snapshot on install/copy/register. An alternative would be a Boolean field in the package description, distinguishing a package from a repository. In the latter case you'd get the expanded version numbers, but sdist would mark the things it created as packages.
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