Cabal package descriptions

[Isaac Jones]

Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

That all sounds fine, then.  I guess we should take the "OtherLicense"
option out of license type, add a licenseFile field, and make either /
or required.

Is anyone writing all this down? ;) [1]

peace,

  isaac


[1] Just kidding, it's going in my ever-growing TODO list.