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Potential Refactors
| Name | Short description | Estimated time | Estimated difficulty | Estimated risk | PRs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UnresolvedPkgLoc | Remove some maybes from PackageLocation, since in some places Nothing never gets used | 2-3h | 2/5 | 2/5 | |
| Dependency as constraint | Separate it from the dependency-as-dependency | ??? | 3/5 | 4/5 | |
| Maybe UnqualComponentName | Make it its own type | 1-2h | 1/5 | 1/5 | #5812 |
In CmdInstall, make the when installLibs / when (not installLibs) blocks into helper procedures or top level functions |
0.5h | 1 | 1 | ||
Get rid of IsString instances for Cabal types (except ShortText) |
4h | 1 | 1 |
In ElaboratedConfiguredPackage.elabPkgSourceLocation, RemoteSourceRepoPackage cannot have a Nothing, but PackageLocation often has Maybe Filepath as local, leading to impossible cases like this one and silly code like this one.
We should remove the maybe wherever is possible.
@fgaz attempted this refactor here (remember to grep for undefined). Here's the only place where he found a Nothing: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/26938a5958088f3cf493b79cab0bfcd3d0ca7c71/cabal-install/Distribution/Client/IndexUtils.hs#L316
Maybe PackageLocation should have two type params: one for RepoTarballPackage (which can be Nothing) and one for the rest. Or just one for RepoTarballPackage.
See https://github.com/fgaz/gsoc/blob/master/2018/final-report.md#the-dependency-as-constraint-problem
The PackageVersionConstraint datatype is the new Dependency-as-constraint. Some places where it should be used here: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/5570