Extending Cabal

[John Meacham]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:41:01AM +0100, Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> I have started to extend Cabal with new feature. What I need is to
> have multiple Haskell source directories for one package. This feature
> is not substantial if you are packaging library, since it is supposed
> to have hierarchical namespace, but it is useful if you have
> executable. It is not mandatory to have hierarchical namespace for
> executables but if you are using flat namespace then with Cabal you
> will be restricted to keep all your source files in single directory.
> The extension that I have in mind will allow to break this
> restriction. GHC source tree is a good example of such type of
> project. It uses flat namespace but its source files are separated in
> multiple directories. The only visible change that is required is to
> replace hs-source-dir field to hs-source-dirs where the latter will
> accept a list of directories. The parser can still accept
> hs-source-dir for backward compatibility. I would like to hear any
> suggestions or objections against this extensions. I don't want to
> waste my time if this extension will not be accepted.

Yes. I often compose projects out of several subprojects and this
feature would be needed to place them under cabal.  So double++ from me
for this idea.

        John

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