multiple cabal files in one directory?

[Duncan Coutts]

On 13 January 2011 17:55, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
>> I think the simplest model would be as follows:
>>
>> reporoot/
>> reporoot/pads/
>> reporoot/pads/pads.cabal
>> reporoot/pads/Language/Pads/XXX.hs
>>
>> reporoot/forest/
>> reporoot/forest/forest.cabal
>> reporoot/forest/Language/Forest/XXX.hs
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I agree that if you typically develop these two packages together but
>> want to be able to distribute them separately then it would be nicer
>> to be able to have multiple .cabal files in one directory.
>
> Or just write
>
> $ for dir in pads forest; do (cd $dir; cabal install); done

That's assuming the dependencies go in that order. With the next
version of cabal you will be able to say:

$ cabal install pads/ forest/

and it will work out the dependency order and install both.

Duncan