[Haskell-cafe] Mystified by Cabal

[Don Stewart]

duncan.coutts:
> On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 17:30 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> > >>>>> "Svein" == Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove at aas.no> writes:
> > 
> >     >> Preprocessing library game-tree-1.0.0.0...  Building
> >     >> game-tree-1.0.0.0...
> >     >> 
> >     >> Data/Tree/Game/Negascout.hs:31:0: Unrecognised pragma [1 of 2]
> >     >> Compiling Data.Tree.Game.Tree ( Data/Tree/Game/Tree.hs,
> >     >> dist/build/Data/Tree/Game/Tree.o )
> >     >> 
> >     >> Data/Tree/Game/Tree.hs:1:0:    Failed to load interface for
> >     >> `Prelude':      it is a member of package base-3.0.3.0, which
> >     >> is hidden
> >     >> 
> >     Svein> What does your .cabal file look like?
> 
> Don, mkcabal is generating .cabal files that are confusing people.
> 
> It should generate new-style .cabal files with library or executable
> sections. The ghc-options and build-depends etc need to be in the lib or
> exe section.
> 
> The files it generates are not actually broken but it leaves new users
> to do the conversion from old style to new and unsurprisingly many get
> that wrong. Cabal is also at fault here for not providing good
> diagnostics but it would help if mkcabal used the current recommended
> style.
> 
> Note also that the list of licenses mkcabal offers is wrong. You can get
> the list from the Cabal lib itself so there is no need to maintain the
> list manually.
> 
> I still think mkcabal should be integrated into cabal-install, like:
> $ cabal init
> or something. We could also more easily keep it up to date that way.


mkcabal is unmaintained.


-- Don