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avoid cabal dependency hell by installing all your cabal dependencies at the same time
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ability to bake --dev into sources.txt #7

Closed kowey closed 12 years ago

kowey commented 12 years ago

From the Institute of Advanced Mindlessness: would it be good if cabal-meta recognised a line in the sources.txt which said --dev? If such a line were present, cabal-meta install would be equivalent to cabal-meta --dev install.

I guess it should only be paid attention to for the top-level package. If you provided in a sub-package but the current top-level package you're installing does not have it, the --dev in the subpackage has no effect.

gregwebs commented 12 years ago

I can see how this would make life a little easier, but sources.txt is a file that you might share with others, and not everyone wants to use cabal-dev, particularly if they are using hsenv.

Are you trying to avo id forgetting the --dev option? What if you could have a ~/.cabal-meta file that specified it, or a proj/.cabal-meta file?

kowey commented 12 years ago

I am indeed trying to avoid forgetting the --dev. I think a global ~/.cabal-meta (perhaps with the option of a --no-dev override) would work for me.

gregwebs commented 12 years ago

I just pushed a commit with a new OmniConfig module. OmniConfig provides a convenient API for accepting configuration from different sources, which right now include the command line, an env variable, and a configuration file.

Unfortunately I just tested it and it doesn't seem to actually work yet :)

gregwebs commented 12 years ago

ok, pushed a new version master. It should pick up a --dev or --no-dev option from a config file or env variable

gregwebs commented 12 years ago

pushed to hackage

kowey commented 12 years ago

Hmm, might be a missing export there:

main.hs:3:8:
    Could not find module `OmniConfig':
      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
gregwebs commented 12 years ago

thanks, uploading cabal-meta-0.2.3.1 now

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, kowey reply@reply.github.com wrote:

Hmm, might be a missing export there:

main.hs:3:8:
    Could not find module `OmniConfig':
      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.

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kowey commented 12 years ago

Cool, thanks! Putting a --dev into $HOME/.cabal-meta/opts does seem to do what I expect.