cabal (./Setup.hs) options

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:45 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I like Cabal. There are a few things that I'm used to from autotools which
> > I can't seem to find: dry-runs, uninstall and a "make distcheck" equivalent.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >   uninstall
> >     Removes all files and directories created by install
> 
> Ditto. This is really necessary since otherwise I'll have to build a
> Debian package anyway before I can install the Cabal package. Getting
> software of my system is almost as important as getting it on there in
> the first place. Prevents my system from deteriorating over time.

I think we didn't include this feature deliberately for some reason.
Isaac can you remember?

> Would it be hard to implement? Anything I could do to help?

In general the way to help is just to submit patches with an
accompanying explanation/motivation/rationale. 'darcs send' does the
"Right Thing"tm, i.e. it sends them to the cabal-devel list.

Oh and everyone is invited to join the cabal-devel mailing list.
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Our main bottleneck on Cabal development is not the lack of people
pointing out shortcomings but the number of people sending patches.

Send more patches, the last ones tasted great!

Duncan
(wearing his Cabal patch reviewer hat)