multiple cabal files in one directory?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> My plan for the command line interface is that cabal
> configure/build/install in a dir with multiple .cabal files will act
> on all of them. Individual packages, or components within packages
> will be selectable by name, e.g. "cabal configure" (configures all
> packages) "cabal build foo" (builds just target foo).
>
> I'm not quite sure how to handle name clashes, but I expect we can
> work something out. For example, a package A containing exe A and B.
> Does A refer to the package (components A and B) or just to the
> component A?

If you think about all the consequences, then I think the extension to 
multiple packages in one directory causes more problems than it solves. As 
I said, my experience so far is, that even multiple packages in one darcs 
repository do not work well for me. Solution of other problems, e.g. 
reliable and predictable management of multiple installed versions of a 
package would be much more important at least for me ...