Cabal Release Candidate

[Brian Smith]

On 7/14/05, Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org> wrote:
> I'd appreciate it if early adopter types try out 1.1.1.  In
> particular, check out the README wrt installing alongside-of or
> instead-of 1.0 with ghc 6.4.

(1) The {-# LANGUAGE ... #-} pragma doesn't seem to work (Tested on
GHC 6.4, GHC 6.4.1).  If it was never implemented then it should be
removed from the documentation. Also, I think that this is a very
useful feature, but it should be implemented in the Haskell
implementations (Hugs, GHC, etc.), not in Cabal. In particular, I want
to be able to use {-# LANGUAGE ... #-} in a file loaded directly into
GHC(i) and Hugs.

(2) When Main-Is is malformed, the error message has a typo:
Setup.hs: Main doesn't exists

("exists" should be "exist".)

This error message is not very helpful,  because in fact module Main
does exist. What _doesn't_ exist is a file named "Main". The error
message should say:
Setup.hs:6: file "Main" does not exist.

(Notice I added the line number)

See the attached testcases.
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