Why does hpack not use the `includes` property?

[CMCDragonkai]

Cabal has the includes property: https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#pkg-field-includes

Which allows you to specify the C headers that should be included when we are compiling C code. How come this is ignored by Hpack? How does Hpack specify that C headers are needed when compiling some C code with c-sources?

[psibi]

@sol Would you like a PR for this ? I had to drop using hpack for a specific project because of this limitation.

[psibi]

Okay, I solved it by using the field extra-source-files. So, I guess you don't really need it.

[CMCDragonkai]

Can this be documented @psibi?

[mpilgrem]

I am going to close this issue because the short answer is that GHC has ignored the includes: field in Cabal files since November 2008 (GHC 6.10.1): https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html