[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re[2]: Starting your own Haskell project: part 2

Benjamin Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Mon Nov 20 12:45:23 EST 2006


Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Donald,
> Sunday, November 19, 2006, 4:32:10 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> For entirely new projects, mkcabal --init-project
>> creates an entire new project tree.
> 
>>     $ runhaskell mkcabal.hs --init-project
> 
> i think it should be asked instead of using option.

I like the way darcs handles this (mostly), i.e. ask the user if and only if
there is no explicit command line option. Options (and thus no questions
asked) are good e.g. for scripting.

Ben



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