Simon Hengel

Yesterday, I pushed a change that allows to have aliases for fields: https://github.com/sol/hpack/commit/92c6c94115e71532239bf0dd249c97502b5d6641 Optionally, aliases can be deprecated. This facilitates renaming in a backwards compatible way. I would still want...

@fendor just to make sure that I understand your point correctly, are you saying that instead of ```yaml cradle: bios: shell: ... # determine options and path to ghc ```...

[Hspec](http://hspec.github.io/) provides this functionality with `--fail-fast`. If converting your tests to Hspec is not feasible, you can try to run your existing tests with Hspec by using - either [hspec-test-framework](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hspec-test-framework)...

> Good idea, that would be a simple approach. shelltestrunner reports shelltest: user interrupt and stops, but it does not exit until I press Ctrl-C. I think the issue here...

Hey! In general this is something we want to have. But having a dependency on `ghc-mod` is somewhat problematic. Maybe put it into a separate package (e.g. `cabal-doctest`), so that...

E.g. here: https://github.com/ekmett/folds/blob/master/Setup.lhs https://github.com/ekmett/folds/blob/master/tests/doctests.hsc

@gbaz what's the procedure for getting build tools installed globally on Hackage? @alaendle wanted to use `markdown-unlit`. https://github.com/sol/markdown-unlit/issues/52

@snoyberg thanks for opening this issue. > I think fixing this in hpack (#238) makes more sense than requiring people to muck around with YAML syntax and GHC argument parsing....

As for (3), seems that this won't work neither. Let's consider: ```yaml ghc-options: - -main-is Foo.run ``` If we now quote this and generate `ghc-options: "-main-is Foo.run"` that won't be...

As I understand it, all of the following are valid ways of specifying `-with-rtsopts` in a cabal file: ```cabal a) ghc-options: "-with-rtsopts -N -T" b) ghc-options: "-with-rtsopts=-N -T" c) ghc-options:...