Cabal package descriptions

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 07:55:01AM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:
> > (repeated) License and License-File should not be mutually exclusive.
> > They're both useful, for different purposes.  Perhaps License would
> > be more accurately called License-Type.
> 
> I would like to make the license field required without being very
> burdensome to the user; I feel like the license-file field is a bit
> more burdensome and it's hard for me to justify making it required.
> Do you still want to have a file as an option in the license-type
> field?
> 
> I guess we could make either/or required.  What do you think about
> what should be required?

I'm not suggesting making License-File required; it's just that now
the two fields conflict because they set the same field in the
PackageDescription.  I've suggesting that License (or Licence-Type)
set a field that is an enumeration of constants, and Licence-File
set a new FilePath field.  I don't don't think either is required
now.  If you want to make Licence-Type required, I wouldn't mind.