Nothing :: Maybe something

A minimal Haskell project.

This project evaluates to Nothing at the moment.
Maybe you can turn it into something that's Just spectacular

The guides How to write a Haskell program and Structure of a Haskell project provides some very good instructions for getting a basic Haskell project up and running.

This project (inspired by hnop) aims to turn the above guides into a runnable project that can be forked and used as a base for other Haskell projects.

How to use this as a base for your new project

1. Fork this repository.
2. Rename your new git repository and clone it.
3. Customise and rename references to Nothing in your local checkout:

$ git mv Nothing.cabal my-new-project.cabal

• Modify my-new-project.cabal
• Modify README.md
• Change the LICENSE file to reflect your project license.
• Find and change any mentions of Nothing that you may have missed:

$ git grep Nothing

If I can't fork my own project and I have to clone :-/

Clone this repo, but use the name of the new project

$ git clone git@github.com:apauley/Nothing.git my-new-project

Create my-new-project in GitHub

But don't let GitHub initialise it with any files such as a README, LICENSE or .gitignore

Change the git origin to the new project

$ cd my-new-project/
$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:apauley/my-new-project.git

Customise as above

Push and track the new upstream master

$ git commit -a -m 'Customised initial config'
$ git push -u origin master

Building

Needed only once after cloning the repo:

$ cabal sandbox init
$ cabal update
$ cabal install --dependencies-only
$ cabal configure

Build after each code change:

$ cabal build -j --ghc-options=-Werror

Running the command-line executable

$ ./dist/build/Nothing/Nothing