On 24.10 21:45, Brian Smith wrote: > Couldn't you split this into Gtk and Gtk-Cairo packages, where the latter is > only built if Cairo is available? Similarly, in your GUI example, couldn't > you have seperate foo and foo-gui packages, and only build the foo-gui > package if the GUI libraries are available? > > Otherwise, how can you say "I depend on the Gtk package being built with > Cairo support" and "I depend on the GUI portion of the foo package?" > > In general, optional groups of modules should be split off into separate > packages, and there should be a way of building a bundle of related packages > together (just like one can build a group of related executables together > already).
The problem is that this creates a very large number of packages which may have recursive dependencies (not supported by GHC!). Also in many cases this would result in 1 package -> 10 packages most of which with one module. - Einar Karttunen _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
