Add way to exclude generated modules from sdists #1046
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In one of my projects, I am machine-generating a number of modules, which other parts of the code then import. These need to be specified in the .cabal file, otherwise hard-to-debug linker errors happen. However, then they get included in sdist tarballs, or sdist chokes if they're not present, which is undesirable. This patch lets generated modules be excluded from sdists on the command line with a
--generated-module
option.(An alternative (and perhaps more robust) approach would be to add a
generated-modules
field to cabal files, but that's only just occurred to me and this patch is sitting here!)