
Hi all, As a new user of arch-haskell, I would just like to put the question out there: What is the point of arch-haskell, vs using cabal? Is it simply for the elegance of using a single package manager (pacman) for all packages on my system (Haskell-related and not) or is there some other inherent problem I can expect down the line if I were to use the cabal ecosystem? sorry if this is a redundant question - Dawid Loubser

One version of the answer to your question can be found here:
https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not...
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Dawid Loubser
Hi all,
As a new user of arch-haskell, I would just like to put the question out there: What is the point of arch-haskell, vs using cabal? Is it simply for the elegance of using a single package manager (pacman) for all packages on my system (Haskell-related and not) or is there some other inherent problem I can expect down the line if I were to use the cabal ecosystem?
sorry if this is a redundant question - Dawid Loubser
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Ramana, thank you for providing exactly the answer I was looking for! I understand the differences between Cabal and cabal-install much better now, thank you - this is a very informative article. I have to admit, cabal-install has generallly just "worked" for me (as an amateur starting out with Haskell), whereas arch-haskell has often incurred failures when building. I am going to try again from a clean sheet, and if I still have issues with arch-haskell, I will start raising them with the community. kind regards, Dawid Loubser Op Ma, 2013-09-23 om 10:48 +0100 skryf Ramana Kumar:
One version of the answer to your question can be found here: https://ivanmiljenovic.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/repeat-after-me-cabal-is-not...
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Dawid Loubser
wrote: Hi all, As a new user of arch-haskell, I would just like to put the question out there: What is the point of arch-haskell, vs using cabal? Is it simply for the elegance of using a single package manager (pacman) for all packages on my system (Haskell-related and not) or is there some other inherent problem I can expect down the line if I were to use the cabal ecosystem?
sorry if this is a redundant question - Dawid Loubser
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:06:19PM +0200, Dawid Loubser wrote:
I have to admit, cabal-install has generallly just "worked" for me (as an amateur starting out with Haskell), whereas arch-haskell has often incurred failures when building. I am going to try again from a clean sheet, and if I still have issues with arch-haskell, I will start raising them with the community.
A few times when I've commented on threads relating to package managers and cabal-install I've also heard comments along the lines of "most questions related to installing Haskell libs come from users of distro package managers, not from from users of cabal-install". However, this doesn't match my personal experience at all. If you do indeed have /any/ problems with [haskell-core] then please raise them on github.com/archhaskell/habs (or here if that fails) since I'm very interested in making sure our packages install and work properly. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
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