On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:34:43AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:42 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > > I guess you could indicate that a package won't build in some > > configuration using the buildable field. Hackage ought to learn > > to use that too. > > Oh you mean we should say: > > if os(windows) > -- this package is known not to work on windows > buildable: false > > and then cabal should fail on configuration, and cabal-install should > not consider depending on that package in that configuration?
It's not ideal, because buildable is a per-component thing, but I think Cabal already fails if none of the components is buildable. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
