[Haskell-cafe] Package metadata format - notes from discussion

[Edward Z. Yang]

Funnily enough, it is already, though not in the way you want ;)

Excerpts from Alexander Kjeldaas's message of 2016-11-03 15:14:26 +0100:
> I didn't see much in the form of problem statement in those threads.
> 
> Let me suggest one: A new format should support the megarepo setup.  Today
> 95% of the text in a .cabal file that exists in a megarepo is fluff.  It
> should be possible to specify a .cabal file in 1-3 lines in a typical
> megarepo setup.
> 
> - repeating copyright, repo location, ghc options, most of the
> dependencies, description, url, author, even version.  All should be
> inherited.  Listing modules seems unnecessary if there are known strategies
> for that.
> 
> How about making the cabal file a Monoid so it can be composed?  I heard
> that's a Haskell thing.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.kumar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > For reference, I have organized the major points of the discussion that
> > happened earlier on haskell-cafe regarding package metadata format (cabal
> > vs yaml, vs toml, vs hs). Take a look at this:
> >
> > https://github.com/harendra-kumar/package-metadata
> >
> > In my opinion, in the short term it might help if the cabal format is
> > improved, the parser is modularized and detached from the cabal tool itself
> > so that it can be used independently by any other tools wishing to do so.
> > For long term possibility of change of format, I do not intend to pursue or
> > investigate it further at this point of time but others who are interested
> > are free to do so.
> >
> > -harendra
> >
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