Hi, Am Sonntag, den 22.04.2012, 03:17 -0400 schrieb Joey Hess: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > That brings us to the language-javascript problem. Firstly, we should > > really ask upstream to ship the Lexer.x file from which the Lexer.hs > > file is generated. However the reason they reason they ship the haskell > > source rather than the lexer source is so that its possible to install > > language-javascript using "cabal install". Cabal has one rather severe > > They could at least ship both and not build the .hs by default.
indeed they need to if Debian should be able to distribute the package. What others do in that situation, including alex itself, is to ship the generated files in dist/ so that for users using cabal-install, no alex is needed. I even recall that "Setup sdist" actually does that, or can somehow be made to do so. This could be suggested to upstream. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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