Cabal preprocessing
Stefan Holdermans
stefan at cs.uu.nl
Thu Nov 30 05:36:27 EST 2006
Ulf,
> The problem with that is that someone getting the sources might get
> the idea that the preprocessed file is an actual source file and
> try to modify it (or just make sense of it, imagine someone trying
> to read a happy parser...). Including parts of dist in the tarball
> makes it clear that what you get is not a vanilla source distribution.
Point taken. But ;), still, for instance, the Haskell files generated
by our attribute grammar system all start with
-- do not edit; automatically generated by UU.AG
Anyway, I'm not the best pick for defending the way it's done right
now: I can perfectly live with either of these two alternatives, I
guess.
Cheers,
Stefan
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