Sunday, October 04, 2020

Re: Review for cabal.port.mk

On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 10:26:50AM +0200, Sebastien Marie wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 09:56:22AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > I'll have to look more closely, but I have a few concerns.
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 11:03:43PM -0700, Greg Steuck wrote:
> > > MASTER_SITES0 = https://hackage.haskell.org/package/
> > That's a minor one.
> > This sets a precedent of hijacking a MASTER_SITESn for a specific module.
> > I don't think it's a big concern because cabal is somewhat isolated.
> > We'll deal with that if we must.
>
> just a side note.
>
> technically lang/rust and lang/go already do something like that, but
> in a more flexible way: the number is configurable, and by default is
> a high number (9) to limit conflict with possible user usage.

yep... making it configurable might be a bit complex, but it should work.

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