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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