[Haskell-cafe] Re: Thinking about what's missing in our library coverage

[Robin Green]

On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:03:55 -0500
Tom Tobin <korpios at korpios.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Colin Paul
> Adams<colin at colina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tobin <korpios at korpios.com> writes:
> >
> >    >> This can surely be tackled by cabal, as it already has the
> >    >> license information.
> >
> >    Tom> I don't see this as a real solution; why would a package be
> >
> > It should be done anyway, irrespective of the platform.
> 
> Yes, that would be handy option for cabal-install in general.

My feature request for this is here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/481

where you can read a reply by Duncan listing some problems with this
idea.
-- 
Robin