Closed bos closed 12 years ago
(Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2008-02-11)
Thanks to Kolmodin's patches the output now looks like:
$ cabal list xmo * xmobar Latest version available: 0.8 Homepage: http://gorgias.mine.nu/repos/xmobar/ Category: System Synopsis: A Statusbar for the XMonad Window Manager License: BSD3 * xmonad Latest version available: 0.6 Latest version installed: 0.6 Category: System Synopsis: A lightweight X11 window manager. License: BSD3 * xmonad-contrib Latest version available: 0.6 Homepage: http://xmonad.org/ Category: System Synopsis: Third party extensions for xmonad License: BSD3Or just listing installed packages:
$ cabal list xmo --installed * xmonad Latest version available: 0.6 Latest version installed: 0.6 Category: System Synopsis: A lightweight X11 window manager. License: BSD3And the machine readable output:
$ cabal list xmo --simple-output xmobar 0.3 xmobar 0.3.1 xmobar 0.4 xmobar 0.5 xmobar 0.6 xmobar 0.7 xmobar 0.8 xmonad 0.1 xmonad 0.2 xmonad 0.3 xmonad 0.4 xmonad 0.4.1 xmonad 0.5 xmonad 0.6 xmonad-contrib 0.5 xmonad-contrib 0.6
$ cabal list xmo --simple-output --installed xmonad 0.5 xmonad 0.6
(Imported from Trac #235, reported by @dcoutts on 2008-02-11)
Currently cabal list foo only looks at the available packages and not at the installed ones.
The cabal list command output needs improving. It currently lists all available versions of available (but not installed) packages. That's both too much and too little info. We want to know for each matching package the installed versions and we probably do not need to know every single available version.
There are already RepoIndex and LocalIndex types for doing lookups so this task is just to format the information nicely. See the Hackage.List module in cabal-install.
For reference you might like to look at what other similar tools do. For example Gentoo's esearch utility gives us: