On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:36 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Sven Panne wrote: > > I've just seen that the .spec file has been changed for Haddock 0.8, but I > > am > > a bit unhappy about that change. The change was that the source tar file is > > not "haddock-0.8.tar.gz" anymore, but "haddock-0.8-src.tar.gz". Although I > > can partly understand the reasoning behind the "-src", I'd like to vote > > against this change for the simple reason that Cabal's sdist does not use > > it > > and generates the "old" name. Therefore I have reverted the patch vote for > > repackaging Haddock 0.8 before it's too late and confusion arises. Let's > > fully use Cabal for building the source distributions and binaries without > > any obscure special cases... > > > > I would have objected earlier, but the commits/pushes to the tools don't > > cause > > a commit email. Could this be changed, too? > > Thanks for pointing this out. I didn't use sdist to produce the Haddock 0.8 > distributions, but I will for the next release, and I'll make sure this > problem > doesn't crop up with the Happy & Alex releases.
And if anyone wants to make cabal's sdist include pre-built .hs versions of happy/alex .y/.x files then that'd be great. Currently that's a manual step. Duncan _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
