SourceRepo

[phadej]

ping @RyanGlScott, resolves #184

this isn't perfect, but you don't need to copy source-package-repository manually. Tests are run, but this is cabal bug, I guess?

I can reliably work-around haskell/cabal#5586 because script cannot know the names of packages referenced.

[RyanGlScott]

Sorry, I didn't see this until just now! This looks quite promising, and I'm eager to give it a try.

Tests are run, but this is cabal bug, I guess?

I assume you're referring to the tests in the source-repository-packages themselves? If so, does this workaround help?

I can reliably work-around haskell/cabal#5586 because script cannot know the names of packages referenced.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you be more specific?

[phadej]

@RyanGlScott if I have

source-repository-package
  type: git
  location: https://example.com/repo.git
  tag: deadc0de

then just from that text information, I cannot infer what packages are there, I cannot generate

package example-package
  tests: false
  benchmarks: false

We need some extra bit of information. So for now, I'd wait until cabal bug is fixed or I get to implement some variant of #129

[RyanGlScott]

Ah, I see what you mean now. I encountered that exact same issue when trying to implement my hack for this in travis-maintenance. I think I settled for only making it work for locations that end in .../repo-name.git (where the .git part is optional). It works OK for my needs, since every source-repository-package I use happens to look like that, but I could understand if you wish to aspire to a higher standard than that :)

I wish that cabal.project files gave you a way of setting options for each source-repository-package (similarly to how you can set options for every package with package *). If we had that, we could avoid the need to specify the names of each source-repository-package in the first place.

[phadej]

Latter is difficult, given e.g. subdirs and someone wishing to differentiate between different packages in the source-repo-package... It's a swamp.

[phadej]

(for the record, my only use case right now also has well-named package-name.git tail, so maybe i'll make a HACK anyway)