#849: [PATCH] Store licenses in text files instead of code.
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Reporter: refold | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Comment(by duncan):
I'm inclined to keep it the way it is. It has the advantage that the cabal
binary has no data files so you can move or distribute a cabal executable
just on it's own. This is particularly handy for windows where we can (and
do) distribute a cabal.exe just as-is.
I don't like the fact that they're embedded in the source code either
though. Perhaps we can use a resource mechanism. Windows certainly
supports that and we can probably do something similar on unix by adding
things into the elf file. OSX has its bundles stuff, or could do the same
trick as on ELF systems.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/849#comment:4>
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