[Haskell-cafe] Deploying bash completion with cabal?

[Erik Hesselink]

That sounds like a solution that would work. An alternative is to use
the hooks available in cabal to install the completion file
immediately on 'cabal install'. See the cabal docs [1] for more
details. The downside is that you don't have a way to specify
dependencies for your Setup.hs [2], so the hooks have to be pretty
simple (you can basically only use base and ghc's bootlibs reliably).

Regards,

Erik

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.20.0.2/docs/Distribution-Simple.html
[2] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/948

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Jacob Stanley <jacob at stanley.io> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I'm looking for a good way to deploy a bash completion script somewhere
> appropriate for the given operating system.
>
> Has anyone tackled this before? I was considering packaging the script in to
> the install using cabal data files, then having an
> 'install--bash-completion' option that tries to detect the right place to
> install it depending on the OS.
>
> Cheers
> Jacob
>
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