On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Philippe Sismondi <psismondi@arqux.com> wrote:
Is a ghc package the same as a cabal package? As far as I can tell they are not. I mean "package" as defined by the documentation for each.

Start here: http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml

Briefly: a cabal package is a collection of source code, metadata, and build instructions to create a ghc package. Hackage is a collection of cabal packages.

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