Talking about that, what are the differences between cabal-install and cabal-dev? Is cabal-dev (which I've never used nor installed) more suited for incremental development?
2011/5/12 Jason Dagit <dag...@gmail.com> > > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Gregory Crosswhite < > gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote: > [snip] > >> 1) Cabal is a tool that can only be used to build Haskell packages with >> some supporting C/C++ code thrown in >> >> and >> >> 2) Cabal is currently the only tool that can realistically be used to >> properly build and install Haskell packages due to the great complexity >> involved with getting all the details right >> > > I agree with much of what you said. I created this feature request for > cabal, that I think would go quite aways towards addressing the problem, but > someone marked it as wontfix: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/815 > > In my opinion, the two most valuable things about cabal are its good > dependency calculation and it allowed hackage to gain momentum. > Unfortunately, we are also forced to use it as a build system and it's > quite inadequate for that task. I say forced because there is no standard > way to extract the dependency calculations from it. You have to write a > Setup.hs file to extract it and it's not trivial. If you succeed at that > task, then you can't even reuse the code without copy&pasting it later. > > In fact, I never invoke cabal-install directly anymore. I've corrupted my > package databases too many times. I make sure to always use cabal-dev for > everything. I think that says something about cabal's efficacy as a build > system. > > Jason > ps. As soon as I figure out a way to get infinite free time I'll implement > the translation to makefiles myself... > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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