Add ability to prevent cabal from deleting intermediates
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cabal-install: other
Cabal: other
type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- Haskell
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Description
I'm currently trying to debug `Setup` issue and have found that `cabal-install` makes this much harder than necessary as it deletes the linked `Setup` executable after running. It would be nice if `cabal-install` would grow a flag to preserve intermediates like this to ease debugging.
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Research direction
Start by tracing cabal-install's cleanup after the linked Setup executable runs, then inspect how command-line flags are handled. The requested behavior is a flag that preserves intermediates for debugging; done means the Setup executable remains when the flag is enabled, with coverage for that behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100