Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
I don't object to it, though I think it'll be a little tricky, and deleting files in tricky ways is a little scary. It's not a lot tricky or a lot scary :) > 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. Same here. peace, isaac _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
