Proposal for a Cabal plugin API (inversion of control)
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Cabal: hooks
Cabal: other
old-milestone: ⊥
type: discussion
- Dominant language
- Haskell
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Description
doctest and ghc-mod are particularly emblematic of stuff that is awesome, but frequently breaks for various reasons. Some of that could be ameliorated with better tool integration.
ghc-mod has to be linked against the version of Cabal in the project otherwise it won't work properly.
/cc @ttuegel
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the issue's motivation around doctest, ghc-mod, and Cabal-version coupling. Investigate the existing Cabal integration points and define the plugin API and inversion-of-control boundaries. Done requires a concrete, agreed design for improving tool integration.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100