Use cabal-fmt as a cabal-modifier?

[nomeata]

I’d like to write tools that edit my cabal file in place, and cabal-fmt seems to be the most suitable starting point. But all the interesting code seems to be in the internal cabal-fmt-internal sublibrary, so I cannot easily extend it.

Do you plan to make the this functionality available for extension?

Or, alternative, what’s your advise for a cabal-modifying tool?

[phadej]

Do you plan to make the this functionality available for extension?

No

Or, alternative, what’s your advise for a cabal-modifying tool?

Idk

[phadej]

Or, alternative, what’s your advise for a cabal-modifying tool?

... or ping people on haskell/cabal#7337 or https://github.com/haskell/cabal/projects/9

[nomeata]

Ok, thanks :-)

I guess since I only have to change the value of existing fields, for my initial experiments I can use the Cabal-syntax parser to get fields with source positions, calculate the new values, and then splice them into the original source.