On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote:
> Excerpts from Ramana Kumar's message of Wed Jan 30 14:46:26 -0800 2013: > > > This argument seems specious. Whether or not cabal-install is or not > > > intended to be a package manager, users expect it to act like one (as > > > users expect rubygems to be a package manager), and, at the end of the > > > day, that is what matters. > > > > > > > But playing along with their delusion might make it harder to change > their > > minds. > > Looking at the library ecosystems of the most popular programming > languages, > I think this ship has already sailed. > I was talking only about Haskell and cabal. There is a viable alternative to using cabal as a package manager on Arch Linux (the Arch-Haskell package repositories). There is also the Stackage project that might make this possible on more distributions with real package managers. But if you keep calling cabal a package manager, eventually you'll have to write the patches to make it one. > > Edward >
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