cabal-helper: Simple interface to some of Cabal's configuration state used by ghc-mod
cabal-helper provides a library which wraps the internal use of
anexecutable to lift the restrictions imposed by linking against versions of
GHC before 7.10. This has the pleasant side effect of isolating the user
from having to deal with Cabal version changes manually as cabal-helper
can simply recompile it's helper program automatically as needed.
cabal-helper uses a wrapper executable to compile the actual cabal-helper
executable at runtime while linking against an arbitrary version of
Cabal. This runtime-compiled helper executable is then used to extract
various bits and peices from Cabal's on disk state (dist/setup-config)
written by it's configure command.
In addition to this the wrapper executable also supports installing any version of Cabal from hackage in case it cannot be found in any available package database. The wrapper installs these instances of the Cabal library into a private package database so as to not interfere with the user's packages.
Furthermore the wrapper supports one special case namely reading a state file for Cabal itself. This is needed as Cabal compiles it's Setup.hs using itself and not using any version of Cabal installed in any package database.
cabal-helper can compile with Cabal >= 1.14 but requires Cabal >= 1.16
at runtime.
Downloads
- cabal-helper-0.6.3.0.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
Note: This package has metadata revisions in the cabal description newer than included in the tarball. To unpack the package including the revisions, use 'cabal get'.
| Versions [RSS] | 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.2.0.0, 0.3.0.0, 0.3.1.0, 0.3.2.0, 0.3.2.1, 0.3.3.0, 0.3.4.0, 0.3.5.0, 0.3.6.0, 0.3.7.0, 0.3.8.0, 0.3.9.0, 0.4.0.0, 0.5.0.0, 0.5.1.0, 0.5.2.0, 0.5.3.0, 0.6.0.0, 0.6.1.0, 0.6.2.0, 0.6.3.0, 0.6.3.1, 0.7.0.1, 0.7.1.0, 0.7.2.0, 0.7.3.0, 0.8.0.0, 0.8.0.1, 0.8.0.2, 0.8.1.0, 0.8.1.1, 0.8.1.2, 0.8.2.0, 1.0.0.0, 1.1.0.0 (info) |
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| Dependencies | base (>=4.5 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9.2.1 && <0.11), Cabal (>=1.14 && <1.23), directory (>=1.1.0.2 && <1.5), filepath (>=1.3.0.0 && <1.5), ghc-prim, mtl (>=2.2 && <2.3), process (>=1.1.0.1 && <1.3), template-haskell (>=2.7.0.0 && <2.11), temporary (>=1.2 && <1.3), transformers (>=0.3.0.0 && <0.6), utf8-string [details] |
| License | AGPL-3.0-only |
| Author | Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org> |
| Maintainer | dxld@darkboxed.org |
| Revised | Revision 1 made by DanielG at 2016-07-06T19:08:06Z |
| Category | Distribution |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/DanielG/cabal-helper.git |
| Uploaded | by DanielG at 2016-01-10T21:46:27Z |
| Distributions | |
| Reverse Dependencies | 3 direct, 3 indirect [details] |
| Executables | cabal-helper-wrapper |
| Downloads | 46522 total (104 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2016-01-10 [all 1 reports] |