cabal sdist does not call the sdist build hook in custom Setup.hs #403

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1. bos commented on May 24, 2012

   

   bos

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   (Imported comment by @dcoutts on 2008-11-20)

   See #372.

   What we need is for the command line interface to support generating a tarball image in a given location. That way an external tool like cabal-install can call it and then call tar itself.
2. jgm commented on Jan 24, 2013

   

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   I just ran into this problem. I was stumped for quite a while wondering why my custom sdist hook wasn't working when I did cabal sdist, then I tried dist/setup/setup sdist and it worked. (Actually I don't need a custom sdist hook, but my Setup.hs uses hookedPreprocessors, adding a custom preprocessor for a new extension, and sdist needs to be aware of this.)

   Any prospect of getting this fixed?
3. 23Skidoo commented on Apr 28, 2013

   

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   Calling ./setup sdist performs the whole action, but we only want to prepare the tree and not tar it up

   For sandboxes, we need a way to list all source files of a package. It'd be nice if one could run Setup sdist --list-sources to do that. Right now we do the same thing that cabal sdist does, which results in the same bug.
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5. 23Skidoo commented on Apr 28, 2013

   

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   I want to fix this for 1.18. Packages with custom preprocessors are really not uncommon.
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   Create source archives by running 'setup --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Create source archives by running 'setup sdist --output-directory'.

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   Use 'sdist --list-sources' for the timestamp check.

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   closed this as completedin 356bae1on May 2, 2013