#932: Add cabal run
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Reporter: tibbe | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: cabal-install-0.16
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.2.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Changes (by kosmikus):
* priority: normal => low
* type: defect => enhancement
* milestone: => cabal-install-0.16
Old description:
> It would be have a new command, `cabal run`, that builds and runs the
> executable defined in the package. If there are several executables the
> user can specify which one to use as `cabal run foo`.
New description:
It would be nice to have a new command, `cabal run`, that builds and runs
the executable defined in the package. If there are several executables
the user can specify which one to use as `cabal run foo`.
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Comment:
Can you provide motivation why this isn't just added complexity in the
cabal tool? Where's the advantage compared to building and running as
separate steps?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/932#comment:1>
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