Re: [Haskell-beginners] Compiling with HDBC

On Friday 13 May 2011 08:17:47, Christopher Done wrote:

On 13 May 2011 07:50, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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On Friday 13 May 2011 07:44:18, David McBride wrote:

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Use ghc --make.

This. You rarely need to specify libraries and packages with make. For nontrivial projects, use Cabal.

Personally I'd recommend even trivial projects to use Cabal. If it's a

I certainly wouldn't want to discourage using Cabal for even the smallest things. I thought of a one-off programme, built from two or three files, using only boot packages (say base, containers, arrays, for example) as dependencies as 'trivial'; if all it needs is "ghc --make" with a vanilla ghc from 6.2 to HEAD, you can get away without Cabal. Anything more, definitely cabalise it.

"project" and not just a 15 minute job, cabal init.

I'm a slow typist, I'll grant an hour ;)