On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:53:29 +0200, Eric Y. Kow <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'd like a tool that takes a .cabal file as input and produces a list of
all dependencies (recursive, all the way to 'base') and some metadata
for each (most importantly, LICENSE)

Does this already exist, or will I to write it myself?

I notice that there's a patch by Trevor Elliot to either Cabal or
cabal-install that does something similar [1], and I know that Magnus
Therning wrote a little tool that creates a GraphViz graph [2]... so it
seems like all the pieces are there already.  But is there anything in
some sort of ready-to-go just-works state, doing everything including
interacting with hackage and sucking down the cabal files it needs, etc?

cab[0] can do that, for installed packages:
  cab deps -i -r -a vector
will generate a list of licenses for vector and the packages it depends upon, like this:
base 4.3.1.0 BSD3 ""
    ghc-prim 0.2.0.0 BSD3 ""
        rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
            ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
    integer-gmp 0.2.0.3 BSD3 ""
        ghc-prim 0.2.0.0 BSD3 ""
            rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
                ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
    rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
        ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
primitive 0.4.0.1 BSD3 "Roman Leshchinskiy <r...@cse.unsw.edu.au>"
    base 4.3.1.0 BSD3 ""
        ghc-prim 0.2.0.0 BSD3 ""
            rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
                ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
        integer-gmp 0.2.0.3 BSD3 ""
            ghc-prim 0.2.0.0 BSD3 ""
                rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
                    ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
        rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
            ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""
    ghc-prim 0.2.0.0 BSD3 ""
        rts 1.0 BSD3 ""
            ffi 1.0 BSD3 ""


Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cab


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