#722: Data-Files cabal directive should support directories
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Reporter: cygnus | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version:
Severity: normal | Keywords: recursive directories data sdist
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Comment(by duncan):
I think we should discuss this with users a bit first. The point of the
existing rather limited support for globbing is to avoid accidentally
picking up more files than was intended (e.g. hidden or generated files).
By limiting it to files with a common extension this risk is greatly
reduced. Perhaps we could make it explicit by only doing recursive copy
for directories that are listed in the data-files field with a trailing
directory slash, e.g. `data-files: graphics/`
--
Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/722#comment:1>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
_______________________________________________
cabal-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
