On 6 May 2015 at 17:43, Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I’m less certain about the use of ProgramDB — the documentation suggests it > will only be populated from command line flags in the “configure” step, or > from .cabal files. Since upload/download do not take place in such settings, > I don’t think it will contain useful information yet. So it might be the > right approach to use it, but it would also require, I suspect, modifying > other parts of the cabal-install executable to populate it properly?
You may need to use a separate ProgramDb (populated at runtime) just for curl/wget and friends. The point is that we already have some code for locating executables that supports setting program locations on command line ('--with-PROG-path') and in the config file, so it'd be nice to reuse it. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel