srid/haskell-flake

`cabal.project` parse error due to leading comment

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#193 opened on Aug 21, 2023

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Description

May be slightly different error than https://github.com/srid/haskell-flake/issues/186

I believe the leading comment

-- This project config requires cabal 2.4 or later

-- If in doubt, use GHC 8.8 to build hackage-server; see
-- 'tested-with' in 'hackage-server.cabal' for a list of currently
-- CI-validated GHC versions
--
-- with-compiler: ghc-8.8

packages: .

causes an error, in addition to the error on the packages line.

Fails with error: https://github.com/peterbecich/hackage-server/blob/cabal-project-parsing-error/cabal.project branch: https://github.com/peterbecich/hackage-server/tree/cabal-project-parsing-error

Succeeds: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/blob/06f831ef7a701967f22128087b3817cdff185cbc/cabal.project branch: https://github.com/peterbecich/hackage-server/tree/update-flake PR: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/pull/1244

Thanks again

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Inspect the cabal.project parsing code to handle leading comments before the packages line.
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