Coming from Scala where I can basically structure my directory sources the way I want I got a bit frustrated by Haskell rigidity here.
So definitely a +1, and I agree cabal support is quite important. OTOH, I don't think Haskell should go in the way of allowing 'any' structure (like scala), but being able to have shortcut like that would be definitely beneficial. Also, I don't think integrating such feature will be an issue for the text editors "jump to declaration" feature, as they should usually use `tags` files. On 28 April 2014 09:40, Roman Cheplyaka <r...@ro-che.info> wrote: > * Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> [2014-04-28 09:26:23+0100] > > On 25/04/2014 17:57, Roman Cheplyaka wrote: > > >* Edward Kmett <ekm...@gmail.com> [2014-04-25 11:22:46-0400] > > >>+1 from me. I have a lot of projects that suffer with 4 levels of > vacuous > > >>subdirectories just for this. > > >> > > >>In theory cabal could support this on older GHC versions by copying > all of the > > >>files to a working dir in dist with the expected layout on older GHCs. > > >> > > >>That would enable this to get much greater penetration more quickly. > > > > > >I'd really not want that people start putting ghc-options: -isrc=... > > >into their cabal files. That'd make them irrecoverably ghc-specific, as > no other > > >tool will know how to process the files unless it reads ghc-options. > > > > No, the idea would be to use hs-source-dirs like this: > > > > hs-source-dirs: A.B.C=src > > > > Cabal just passes this in a -i option to GHC, so it almost Just Works, > > except that Cabal needs to preprocess some source files so it needs to > find > > them, and also sdist needs to find source files. > > In that case, I'm in favour of this proposal. > > Please consider the reversed syntax instead: > > hs-source-dirs: src=A.B.C > > I find it more intuitive, because A.B.C becomes sort of an optional > parameter, > the empty prefix being its default value. > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > > -- *Alois Cochard* http://aloiscochard.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/aloiscochard http://github.com/aloiscochard
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