[Haskell-cafe] Listing native package requirements based on cabal information

[David Thomas]

I don't think attoparsec or any of its dependencies have any native
requirements, and some poking around seems to support this, although I
don't have any easy way of telling for certain (which is part of what I'm
looking for).

On the other hand, something like postgresql-libpq clearly depends on the
libpq C library (and possibly other things) as listed in the
Extra-Libraries field in its cabal file, *as do anything that require
postgresql-libpq* which fact does *not* directly show up in their cabal
file.  Walking the tree and pulling that info is a possibility, but it
needs to be done after dependency-resolution in case requirements change
version to version.


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
>  >> what exactly do you mean when by "package requirements"?
>  >
>  > Well, the most important thing is to make sure people can
>  > successfully build things. Next most important is to minimize the
>  > manual intervention required (and the degree to which that manual
>  > intervention is spread out through time).
>
> I am sorry, but I still don't understand what exactly you mean. Could
> you please give a specific example of what exactly it is that you want?
> Let's use the package "attoparsec" as an example. Could you please write
> down the information you consider "package requirements" for that
> package?
>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
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