[darcs-devel] [issue2636] executable flag can get turned off automatically

Ganesh Sittampalam bugs at darcs.net
Fri Sep 20 18:04:42 UTC 2019


Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:

> Do we need this flag at all? With modern cabal we can select which
> component(s) to build on the command line, so we would only loose the
> ability to configure this statically in cabal.project[.local]. I
> personally wouldn't miss that, so if it were just me I would throw it out.

I've had reason to need it in the past, but to be honest I can't
remember why now. I'd like to make a minimal change to 2.14 though,
maybe we can just drop it in 2.15.

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