[Haskell-cafe] Cabal exit codes when work to be done

[Patrick Wheeler]

`cabal configure`

returns a non-zero exit code if something needs to be installed.  Does that
work as an alternative?

Patrick


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com
> wrote:

> Is there a way to run e.g. `cabal install --only-dependencies` and have
> it return a non-zero exit code if, for instance, there IS something to
> do?
>
> I tried `--dry-run` but the exit code is still 0 if something is
> missing.
>
> [or have it return non-zero if there isn't work to do, or...]
>
> AfC
> Sydney
>
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