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Improve build-type defaulting - #4958
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A personal DRY-pet-peeve of mine when writing
.cabalfiles from scratch is forgetting about declaring thebuild-type, which historically will then be inferred to beCustomwhich is almost always not what is desired. Instead, a better default isSimpleas that represents the most basic and recommendedbuild-type. Morever, starting withcabal-version:1.24, we have a redundant signal in the.cabalfile to statically imply a custombuild-type, namely thecustom-setupstanza.To this end, this PR finally removes this papercut by improving the defaulting to use the following simple rules:
cabal-versionis set to2.1or higher, the default isSimpleunless acustom-setupstanza exists, in which case the inferred default isCustom.cabal-versions below2.1, the default isCustomunconditionally (legacy defaulting).This allows us to bring down the minimal (modern) trivial cabal package definition down to a single file with 4 lines:
NB: We don't need any
Setup.hsfile, ascabal new-builddoesn't need any, andcabal sdistwill magically generate one on the fly and include it in the source distribution.Please include the following checklist in your PR: