Licence: ../LICENCE

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Apr 24 13:49:38 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:32 +0700, Peter Gammie wrote:
> Does this work?

The LICENCE file would actually have to exist at ../ relative to the
location of the .cabal file.

sdist would fail of course since no files to go into the tarball can lie
outside of the project directory.

> On install, I think Cabal copies it to the parent of the correct  
> directory.

Right, it'd copy it to $distdir/../LICENCE

> I use this short hand so I don't have 10 BSD3's lying around.

I would not recommend doing this. Use a symlink instead.

Duncan



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