cvs commit: fptools/libraries/Cabal/Distribution Setup.hs fptools/libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Simple Register.hs fptools/libraries/Cabal/tests ModuleTest.hs

[ross at soi.city.ac.uk]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:01:54PM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
>   Refactored test suite and ported to (CVS) Hugs
>   Found the following issues:
>   ** install --user for hugs doesn't work at all

Actually if the code didn't test against Hugs, the recipe in Example 6
would more or less work, though the directory naming might not be ideal.  
But I think user installs need more thought (i.e. after 6.4 is out)
so it might as well stay as it is.

>   ** install for hugs doesn't know the trick of checking in the library
>      directory for other-modules while building an executable

This shouldn't be necessary -- the library should be installed and thus
available when the generated script is run.  (And did I mention that I
think this feature is a nasty kludge?)

>   ** copyFile for hugs doesn't work on binaries?  I get an error about
>      encodings during copy step when cross-installing GHC libraries with
>      Hugs build.  This may mask other problems since its hard to test
>      cross-installing.

Yes, it shouldn't be using text mode.  Not a problem for 6.4, though.