patch applied (cabal): Make the GetOpt help text fit in 80 cols
by wrapping the description
Thomas Schilling
nominolo at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 24 14:37:13 EDT 2007
On 23 aug 2007, at 23.41, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Thu Aug 23 12:30:15 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
> * Make the GetOpt help text fit in 80 cols by wrapping the
> description
> And reduce the padding slightly.
> The configure help text look slightly less terrible now, though
> we've still
> got too many long flags and short flags with long arg names so
> there's not
> really enough width for the description so it wraps in too many
> cases.
>
> M ./Distribution/GetOpt.hs -26 +35
I didn't look too closely at the code, but is there a reason why you
chose to implement a custom version instead of using the pretty printer?
/ Thomas
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