Hi Stephen, thanks for this information! So we'll just go for a different .cabal file in the demos/ subdirectory of each project. Then people can build the demos if they want to.
Cheers, Axel On May 8, 2010, at 13:45, Stephen Blackheath [to gtk2hs developers] wrote: > Axel, > > You can (...build an executable in a cabal file that depends on the > library that is being built in the cabal file...) on versions of Cabal > where ticket #89 has been fixed. > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/89 > > This is in Cabal 1.8 but the changes for cabal-install are not yet > released on Hackage, I think. Also there is an outstanding bug to do > with running 'cabal haddock'. > > If you don't depend on the internal library explicitly, it will find > the > sources (assuming the source root directory is the same) fine, but it > will end up building everything many times over (once for the lib and > once for each binary). Not good for a large project. > > > Steve > > On 08/05/10 22:41, Axel Simon wrote: >> I think we should compile all demos by default but not install them. >> You can specify that with cabal. However, I don't know if you can >> build an executable in a cabal file that depends on the library that >> is being built in the cabal file. If that doesn't work, we need to >> come up with a new solution. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gtk2hs-devel mailing list > Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gtk2hs-devel mailing list Gtk2hs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk2hs-devel
