Support for mixins about cabal-doctest HOT 6 OPEN

build-type: Custom and mixins (or backpack in general) just don't work together.

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@phadej Ah, that's sad to hear :/ Is that an intrinsic limitation, or is there a chance (even if slim) mixins and Custom may work in the future?

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In theory they could. In practice it requires a lot of engineering (which I think is wasted work).

I have made cabal-docspec which allows to run doctests on anything you can build with cabal-install: https://github.com/phadej/cabal-extras/tree/master/cabal-docspec; If you have a choice use it. I'm tempted to deprecate cabal-doctest in the near future, as I have no use for it myself and there is a replacement (though not strictly better, there are different - IMHO better - trade-offs).

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Interesting! How would I go about using it? For example, in this test repo, how would I enable cabal-docspec?

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Please read the manual first.

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Oh, I completely missed the manual.md, I was looking for a readme.md 😅 Thanks, I'll have a look!

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