[Haskell-cafe] Re: a cabal package with both a library and executable programs

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:19 +0100, Achim Schneider wrote:
> Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> 
> > Should I fill a feature request ticket, or this is how it is supposed
> > to work?
> >
> I would like to be able to do that, too. I also don't want cabal to
> recompile a thousand modules just for a demo program, and don't want to
> see hackage being polluted by thousands of foo-lib and foo-bin packages
> to circumvent the current behaviour, either.
> 
> That is, feel yourself seconded.

The existing ticket for this feature request is:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/89

The plan is to allow the executables to build-depend on the library.

Duncan