[Haskell-cafe] "cabal quine"

[Joachim Durchholz]

Am 18.07.2017 um 14:34 schrieb Aloïs Cochard:
> Hi Albert,
> 
> I definitely see uses for `cabal manpage`; it's great, but how useful 
> would be `cabal quine` in practice?
> 
> I fail to see what purpose it could serve.

That's exactly why he wrote that his request is "in jest": It's useless, 
just the logical generalization of `cabal manpage`.

> Cheers
> 
> On 15 July 2017 at 19:37, Albert Y. C. Lai <trebla at vex.net 
> <mailto:trebla at vex.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Today a few of us on IRC (freenode #haskell) discovered: The
>     following cabal-install command
> 
>          cabal manpage
> 
>     outputs cabal-install's man page (and is mainly how cabal-install
>     can come with a man page without carrying an extra source file).
> 
>     This inspires the following feature request in jest:
> 
>     Could "cabal quine" output its source code please? :)
> 
>     kthxbye
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