First (pre-)release of JoinCabal
This is the first official pre-release announcement of JoinCabal.
It works like this:
$ joincabal
and creates this:
projectname/ projectname/LICENCE projectname/ProjectName.hs projectname/projectname.cabal projectname/Setup.lhs
The important part is the dot-cabal file, since this is quite intricate and a bit dull to set up. It just outlines the basics of the program, what the executable will be called, who the maintainer is and their contact details, that kind of thing.
A previous version called mkcabal was written by Don Stewart. His is naturally more elegant than mine. JoinCabal - apart from being an obvious instance of NIH syndrome also writes a bit of licence header into the top of your main source file. Which is my justification for writing it.
And obviously it’s going to be grand and wonderful in the future. Obviously.