Adding tests for cabal-install

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvr at gnu.org
Tue Jan 1 10:41:53 CET 2013


Jason Dagit <dagitj at gmail.com> writes:


[...]

> The risk of using the cabal-install modules as
> a library is that the API of cabal-install should be allowed to change
> freely between versions, potentially causing breakages in downstream tools.
> I think if that risk is understood by consumers of the API then it's
> actually really valuable to have that level of access to the internals.

well, that's what the PVP is there for... if consumere adhere to the PVP
they won't break compilation due to API changes... :-)



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