Re: building a project with new-* commands

2016-09-16 Thread lennart spitzner
The build artefacts of new-* are placed in a "dist-newstyle" directory. Another common mistake with 1.24.0.0 is that `cabal new-build` won't do much at all if run in some parent directory. You might need to `cabal new-build ./my-blog/` and then get the artefacts somewhere (burried) in

Re: pre-710 compatibility stuff

2015-10-24 Thread lennart spitzner
On 24/10/15 15:05, Thomas Tuegel wrote: > MIN_VERSION_base is defined by Cabal, so it is not available during > bootstrapping. This means we unfortunately need to use > __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ in Cabal, even though it isn't really the right > macro. It should be safe to use MIN_VERSION_base in

Re: inactive issues

2015-02-25 Thread lennart spitzner
to the original reporter, making it less likely that the original reporter would step up with more information if needed, etc. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Thomas Tuegel ttue...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:52 PM, lennart spitzner l...@informatik.uni-kiel.de wrote: hi, i

inactive issues

2015-02-24 Thread lennart spitzner
hi, i noticed today's run at the closing inactive issues on the tracker. i would like to to ask an innocent question: what exactly is the benefit of this action? (i disclose that it seems to me that valid, if inactive, issues are being closed, which i do not like. but before complaining, i want

improving commandline documentation/help

2014-10-30 Thread lennart spitzner
hello cabal devs, i am willing to put a bit of time into improving the help texts of cabal-install. some questions: 1) nobody else is working on this, right? is there risk that it interferes with other's work? (i'd basically touch Distribution.Simple.Command and the different fooCommand's in