On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, Andrew Coppin wrote:
As some of you may remember, I recently released a couple of packages on
Hackage. I'd like to also release some example programs using these packages,
but I'm not sure of the best way to do this.
Do I make the example programs part of the package itself? Do I release a
seperate package which just contains the example code? Something else
entirely? What's the recommendation here?
Usually I include the example program in the package, but make its
compilation conditional using a Cabal flag like buildExamples. This way,
you can build the examples explicitly by
cabal install package -fbuildExamples
but they won't be build when the package is build as dependent package.
See for instance:
http://code.haskell.org/gnuplot/gnuplot.cabal
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