easy cabal tasks

2007-12-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
People are often unsure about where they can help out with Cabal. One thing we can do to make that easier is to point out smaller simpler tasks that people might like to have a go at. We have a list of tasks that are marked as easy or very easy: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/report/13

Re: [Hackage] #24: Cabal shouldn't try to build GHCI libs on platforms without GHCI

2007-12-30 Thread Hackage
#24: Cabal shouldn't try to build GHCI libs on platforms without GHCI +--- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Owner: ijones Type: defect | Status: new Priority: norma

Re: [Hackage] #67: sdist doesn't include .hi-boot files

2007-12-30 Thread Hackage
#67: sdist doesn't include .hi-boot files +--- Reporter: ijones |Owner: ijones Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone: Component: Cabal libra

Re: [Hackage] #103: feature request: preprocess files with ghc before haddock?

2007-12-30 Thread Hackage
#103: feature request: preprocess files with ghc before haddock? ---+ Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Owner: ijones Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: normal|Mileston

Re: [Hackage] #191: Hackage should check for common QA problems in ghc-options

2007-12-30 Thread Hackage
#191: Hackage should check for common QA problems in ghc-options +--- Reporter: duncan |Owner: Type: enhancement| Status: new Priority: normal |Mi

Re: [Hackage] #201: clean doesn't report an error when it fails

2007-12-30 Thread Hackage
#201: clean doesn't report an error when it fails +--- Reporter: guest |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone

Re: Coping with weirdo third party packages

2007-12-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 19:16 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > >> I thus have to add -lstdc++ as an ld-option. > > > It should be used when linking an executable since we call ghc to do > > that. So I'm a bit confused about what's going on there. Any more > > details? > >

Re: Can't upload a newish package

2007-12-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 20:09 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > I'm using ghc 6.8.2, and can't upload the LLVM bindings from > http://darcs.serpentine.com/llvm/ > > Here's the error I get from "cabal-upload -v": > > line 41: Parse of field 'extensions' failed: > > Unfortunately, it includes no f