patch applied (packages/regex-base): Make
setupscriptcompileagain after recent Cabal changes
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Mon Sep 3 03:57:57 EDT 2007
| - Ross pointed out that packages can't simply re-export modules,
| so the straightforward solution of a package without sources,
| just with a .cabal file, seems barred for the moment (though i
| don't understand why this restriction is there, so perhaps i am
| asking for an extension?)
Yes this is undoubtedly a bug, in Cabal or GHC or (probably) both. Of *course* a package should be able to re-export a module from another package, just as a module can re-export a function imported from another module. I don't think there is any difficulty in principle; it just needs to be implemented.
Simon
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