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<p class=MsoNormal>I have not been following the recent work on Cabal, but I
tried to build in the gap before this patch was committed. I <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Fri Aug 3 18:57:01 GMT Daylight Time 2007 Thomas Schilling
<nominolo@gmail.com><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> * Fix tab in Cabal.cabal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I was surprised to find that tabs are disallowed in cabal
files. Is that really the intention? It seems like a pitfall for the unwary!
At the very least, if they must be disallowed, could the error message be more
informative? At the moment we get <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Setup.exe: Cabal.cabal:70: Unrecognized
field format: 'Distribution.Simple.SetupWrapper,'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It’d be better to get<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Setup.exe: Cabal.cabal:70: illegal tab character:
replace with spaces<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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