local aliases to cabals

[hackergrrl]

It'd be neat if I ran

cabal --key cabal://abcdef123456 --alias friends

and then I could subsequently run

cabal friends

and have that cabal open.

[kodedninja]

I wonder if this should be part of cabal or cabal-core within an API for local storage. Opinions?

[todrobbins]

@kodedninja the design would need to be figured out, but giving cabals on Cabal Desktop aliases would be great and probably fit in cabal-core.

[hackergrrl]

I think it's a good feature for cabal-client. My thinking is that Core is the place for managing the p2p database, and Client could be where all local preferences and local state are stored.

[cblgh]

+1

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Le 13 sept. 2018 à 19:38, Stephen Whitmore ***@***.***> a écrit : I think it's a good feature for cabal-client. My thinking is that Core is the place for managing the p2p database, and Client could be where all local preferences and local state are stored. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[todrobbins]

@noffle makes a better point 👍

[cblgh]

can be implemented in #89's config file as another key aliases that maps a cabal id to an alias.

when starting cabal we will check if there is a config file (locally, or in .cabal). if there is, we will see if the key we were given was in aliases. if it was, we'll join the corresponding cabal:// key. if it wasn't present, we'll assume that what was passed in was a cabal key