creswick/cabal-dev — Issue #48: add-source tarball
Author: kowey
Created: 2012-02-06 10:01:32+00:00
State: open

If I understand correctly, cabal-dev add-source uses sdist to copy dependencies to a sandbox. For various reasons, however, some packages cannot be effectively packaged using sdist. Perhaps it would make sense if add-source could accept a tarball in addition to the usual directory?