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Describe DistutilsMetadata here.

= See also =

See cabal (the "haskell distutils") for an example

http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/authors.html#pkg-descr

There is a setup.hs to drive the build/installation, and a .cabal file for the metadata. It looks like simple packages can get away with only the simple, static .cabal file + a trivial setup.hs. For things which cannot be defined statically (system dependent options, etc...), there are hooks, which are implemented in setup.hs.

2026-02-14 16:07