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Commit e57fd11b authored by Gabriel Gonzalez's avatar Gabriel Gonzalez
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Add `pkgs.haskell.lib.readDirectory` utility

This adds a `readDirectory` utility that can be used to "slurp" a directory
full of `cabal2nix`-generated files and transform them into a Haskell package
override set.  The main use of this is so that users don't have to write:

```
{ overrides = self: super: {
    foo = self.callPackage ./path/to/foo.nix { };

    bar = self.callPackage ./path/to/bar.nix { };

    ...
  };
}
```

Instead, they can write:

```
{ overrides = pkgs.haskell.lib.readDirectory ./path/to;
}
```

This is a an alternative to `packageSourceOverrides` which primarily addresses
the following use cases:

* The desired package is not yet available in `all-cabal-hashes` (perhaps the
  user is pinned to an older revision of `nixpkgs`)
* The default `cabal2nix` invocation used by `packageSourceOverrides`
  does not use the desired `cabal2nix` flags
* The user wants to avoid the use of import-from-derivation
parent 208091b3
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