On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:11:50PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:41 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > > > I don't follow you there. There's a copy of the .cabal file inside the > > tarball, which you say you're not changing, but it is the tarball that > > people will download and build. > > True, however when planning what to install, cabal-install at least will > use the .cabal file from the index, so any fixes to deps etc will be > taken into account. We would also encourage people writing tools to > convert cabal packages to distro packages to use the .cabal file from > the index.
For what it's worth, I agree with Ross (if I understand his position correctly, at any rate): I don't think we should be changing the external cabal file, nor expecting distributions to use any external changes. If changes are needed then someone should do a new upload, with a different version number. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
