Supports GHC 7.8.3 and cabal sandboxes

[schell]

Includes updates for GHC 7.8.3 and cabal support from @maximkulkin's https://github.com/maximkulkin/hdevtools/tree/cabal-support

[grodin]

Any news on whether this will get merged, and if so when?

[schell]

@grodin, @bitc is MIA and I'm waiting for a bit to contact the admin at hackage to temporarily take over this package's hackage responsibilities. So - soon!

[grodin]

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[dpnova]

Noob checking in here - what's the best way to get this version onto my local env? Cheers :)

[rgoulter]

@dpnova Since this PR is branch cabal-support-ghc7.8 of scholl/hdevtools

git clone https://github.com/schell/hdevtools.git
git pull origin cabal-support-ghc7.8
cabal install

Should do the trick.

[dpnova]

Thanks @rgoulter :)

[schell]

This has been uploaded to hackage and is included in master on my fork at https://github.com/schell/hdevtools. I'm keeping this open though, as I'm not sure how else to handle it.

[real-or-random]

The handling of subdirectories does not really work for me:

Assume the current folder contains .cabal file and .cabal-sandbox directory.
> hdevtools check src/Vektz/Frontend/Test.hs works fine. However, in a subdir, the cabal sandbox is not respected:

 > cd src
> hdevtools check Vektz/Frontend/Test.hs
Vektz/Backend/Colors.hs:6:8:
Could not find module ‘Data.Colour.SRGB’
Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
[...]

Any ideas?

[schell]

@real-or-random - hmmm. I think the only way for hdevtools to respect a cabal file in parent directories is for it to look for the cabal file recursively up the filesystem. I can imagine that someone may have a cabal file somewhere in a parent directory while working on a project without a cabal file, which would cause a bit of a mix up. Do you think that case is rare enough not to worry about?

[maximkulkin]

@schell Actually, support for searching cabal file was added with 0ee6a41 and 0f37a15. So, it need to be further investigated: 1) make sure that this patch was applied; 2) what is the project's directory/file layout?

[real-or-random]

It's the current hdevtools-0.1.0.6 from hackage; I did a clean re-install to verify.

The layout is pretty standard:
The base dir contains the files vektz.cabal, cabal.sandbox.config and the directories .cabal-sandbox, dist, and src. Then, src contains the modules.

[schell]

@maximkulkin the patch is applied - https://github.com/schell/hdevtools/commits/master