Daniel Wagner

Confusing error message when project contains duplicates in 'packages' declaration

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**Describe the bug** I see the following behavior: ``` % cabal v2-repl Resolving dependencies... TODO: add support for multiple packages in a directory CallStack (from HasCallStack): error, called at ./Distribution/Client/ProjectOrchestration.hs:532:9...

differentiate metavariables and literals in target syntax

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In the description of target syntax for `cabal v2-build`, it's not super clear which bits of the syntax are variables that the user should replace with their own text, and...

MonadFail instance (feature request)

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It would be very handy to have a `MonadFail` instance that `retry`s. As a minimal motivating example, consider: pop :: TVar [a] -> STM a pop v = do a:as

For example, in http://eidogo.com/#3lyWFDzxv:0,0, after BJ17, WJ17, BK15, the node for the WL17 continuation has the wrong parent.

If `test.log` has the following contents: ``` Package foo Warning: bar (foo) baz ``` Then the following `test.log.pulp` file correctly results in no output: ``` !'bar\nbaz' ``` But with this...

I haven't checked this, but I bet if a log file opens and immediately closes a file, that file doesn't appear in the parsed version of the log. That's a...

Sometimes it is handy to record why we don't want to see a particular message. The configuration file should have some comment syntax to allow that. Simple is better --...

Every time I want to configure pulp for a new document, I have to come back here and remind myself what the default configuration is. It should be easy to...

print something, even before the test result is known

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For long-running tests, it is convenient to learn which test is running even before one knows any results of the test. The console runner does not print anything until the...

look in stack's work directory for import files

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It looks like `stack build --ghc-options -ddump-minimal-imports` puts GHC's output in a different directory than `cabal build --blah-blah-blah`. It would be nice if packunused knew how to look in that...