Extending Cabal

[Samuel Bronson]

On 12/05/05, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> At a tangent to what Krasimir said:
> 
> >                       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 was thinking yesterday about whether it would be possible
> to extend Cabal's parser to allow different spellings for the
> individual field names in the .cabal file?  Krasimir's example of
> backward-compatibility is one use-case.  For myself, I was wondering
> about internationalisation, e.g. "license" is spelled "licence"
> in English, "author" is spelled "auteur" in French, etc.

Which language is it spelled "license" in? Anyway, even in English
there are a lot of differences between the US and the UK.