Sunday, October 04, 2020

Re: Review for cabal.port.mk

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.

--
Sebastien Marie

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