On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 07:15 -0700, Denis Bueno wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:56, Duncan Coutts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That's because it's a bug, not a feature. :-) > > > > Be careful of using this "feature" as we might fix it. > > I've wished for this feature, and have Cabal files right now that > would be cleaner with it. Is there something technically wrong or > undesirable about this feature that necessitates "fixing"?
If it's supposed to work it should work consistently. It's a quirk that to support old-style .cabal files we allow build-depends but not other fields in the global section. If we do it properly we should either allow all fields there, or perhaps in an explicit "common" section or something. I hope we can address this and related limitations and quirks in the Cabal-1.8 development cycle. If you want to help out with that let me know and I can give you some pointers. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
