[Haskell-cafe] Saving changes to cabal config in cabal-dev

[Rogan Creswick]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the fantastic cabal-dev tool!

You're welcome!

> Is there any convenient way to save changes to the
> package-specific cabal config file in cabal-dev?
....
> The only solution I have found so far is to run
> cabal-dev install once (ignoring the errors) to create
> the cabal-dev directory and cabal.config, make a
> copy of cabal.config with a different name, edit it
> as needed, and then use a long-winded
> "--config=..." option for every subsequent run
> cabal-dev.

That is currently the only way to do this :(.  One workaround is to
create an alias for cabal-dev that adds that flag.  e.g., in Bash:

alias cabal-dev = 'cabal-dev --config=cabal.config '

Then you can have a cabal.config next to your project cabal file and
it will use that.  To bypass the alias, just prefix it with "\", e.g.:

$ \cabal-dev

We're working on the first problem -- it's just a matter of finding
the time.  Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen for
another week or two.  The ticket is here:

https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues#issue/15

--Rogan
>
> The changes I need to make are as follows:
>
> - remote-repo-cache is wrong for Mac OS X
> - add more remote-repo lines for our local
>  yackage servers.
>
> Note that the first is global, so it would be nice
> to have a way to make that change once globally
> for all packages. Whereas the second is, in
> general, package specific.
>
> We find local yackage servers much simpler to use
> and far more powerful than using add-source.
> You can organize packages by project, team,
> specific developers, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Yitz
>
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