GetOpt formatting improvements

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jul 2 08:22:59 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 06:40 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:

> (which, incidentally, I was doing to try to find out why 'cabal fetch' 
> doesn't seem to do anything.  And failed miserably.  No messages, no new 
> directories in ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/ or in ./  ... Oh 
> wait, fetching uvector works.  Maybe it's because GHC comes with 
> random-1.0.0.0 so cabal erroneously thinks it already has the source 
> code that I want to look at, i.e. "for later installation *or study*" as 
> `cabal --help` says?)

        http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/297
        "cabal fetch command don't fetch packages those have already
        been installed"

It shouldn't be too hard to fix, so you're most welcome to send in a
patch :-)


Duncan



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