id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
722	Data-Files cabal directive should support directories	cygnus		"It should be possible to use the `Data-Files` directive to include whole directories (recursively) in source distributions.  In many cases it's impossible or cumbersome to list all of the files one would like to install, and it seems to me that nobody should have to do that if what they really mean is, ""install everything in that-data-dir/.""

In implementation terms, this doesn't strike me as too tricky; after the wildcard parsing that already happens, detect whether the files to be copied are in fact directories and copy them recursively as such.

I'm more than willing to hack on this."	enhancement	new	normal	Cabal-1.12	Cabal library		normal		recursive directories data sdist	cygnus	unknown