On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:52, Ross Paterson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:59, Ross Paterson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Magnus is building by directly running the Setup.hs himself, which ignores >> > the Build-Type. To get cabal-install to use his Setup.hs, the Build-Type >> > must be set to Custom. >> >> Oh, why*2? >> >> Why is the header there if it's not used by Cabal, and why does cabal care? > > The field allows cabal to avoid compiling the Setup.hs in this case. > It might also be used by other tools, e.g. one might only trust Simple > packages. Not all fields are used by all tools, and several of them > do not affect the operation of the library (e.g. Home-page).
All right, so why would cabal want to avoid compiling the Setup.hs? Of course this behaviour of cabal's means that I in the future will use *Custom* all the time, since I otherwise have to remember this surprising feature of a tool I never use. Is there any reason *not* to do this? Cheers, M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
