[Haskell-beginners] Adding to a package

[David McBride]

If you want to test something, there are several packages for doing
that. cabal-dev and virthualenv both set up repositories in your
current directory, allowing you to cabal install packages willy nilly
without affecting your global package database.  I personally prefer
virthualenv (not the spelling), but both are very good programs.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:33 AM, AbdulSattar Mohammed
<codingtales at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just submitted a patch to Wai, but I didn't like the process I went
> through while testing it on my machine.
>
> I cloned the repo, modified it and ran
>
> runghc Setup configure --prefix=$HOME --user
> runghc Setup install
>
> That registered as something like wai-2.1.1.1. ( I don't know what it
> exactly looked like, but it appended a ".1" to the previous version.)
> When I ran my test code, it used the latest version. Fine.
>
> But, is this the way everyone does that? I mean, adding a new version?
> I can't think of any other way, but I'm just against registering the
> package into the GHC registry. How does everyone do that?
>
> --
> Warm Regards,
>
> AbdulSattar Mohammed
>
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