Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:45 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi,
I like Cabal. There are a few things that I'm used to from autotools which
I can't seem to find: dry-runs, uninstall and a "make distcheck" equivalent.
<snip>
uninstall
Removes all files and directories created by install
Ditto. This is really necessary since otherwise I'll have to build a
Debian package anyway before I can install the Cabal package. Getting
software of my system is almost as important as getting it on there in
the first place. Prevents my system from deteriorating over time.
I think we didn't include this feature deliberately for some reason.
Isaac can you remember?
It was possibly because I objected to it; although now I can't remember exactly
what it was I diskliked so much about it. Possibly just the fact that I think
this is the job of the system's package manager, not Cabal. But the same
argument applies to 'setup install' of course.
So to be clear, I don't object to uninstall any more, if someone wants to go
ahead and implement it that's fine by me.
Cheers,
Simon
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