cvs commit: fptools/libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Simple Build.hs

[Ross Paterson]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:08:29AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> [...]
> What I'm really getting at here (and with some of the other problems I
> raised recently) is that allowing 1 library + multiple executables in a
> single package is not the right design, IMO.  Especially if the
> executables depend on the library.  This goes back to a previous
> discussion:
> 
>   http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2004-November/002691.html
> 
> How about allowing one library *or* multiple executables in a package?
> That would avoid these problems for now, and we can do the Right Thing
> later.

I tend to agree, but are there not similar problems with multiple
executables that share auxiliary modules?  Or would you make hs-source-dir
and the options fields apply to the whole package?