On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:21 PM, Stefan Holdermans wrote:
- are there strong reasons for putting preprocessed files in src?
One reason could be that, when distributing *sources*, you'd want
the generated file to be included as well (that is, you want to
regard it as a source file), for the system your program is to be
compiled on might not have the preprocessor available and you don't
want to make that a hard requirement... Of course, you can still
achieve this by putting it in dist and put the file from dist in
the generated tarball, but, arguably, the way it's done now, makes
explicit that the file might be viewed as a source file.
The problem with that is that someone getting the sources might get
the idea that the preprocessed file is an actual source file and try
to modify it (or just make sense of it, imagine someone trying to
read a happy parser...). Including parts of dist in the tarball makes
it clear that what you get is not a vanilla source distribution.
Also, building executables with GHC --make requires (?) modules to
be present in designated locations in the directory tree...
You just have to run GHC with -idist/... This is the way I had it set
up before migrating to Cabal.
/ Ulf
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