On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Philippe Sismondi 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. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

Actually - feeling a bit guilty here. I just found the passage in the Cabal documentation that treats the issue of ghc versus cabal packages. That's probably not the last time I'll post before the RTFM step, but my apologies anyway. - P - On 2014-02-18, at 11:26 AM, Philippe Sismondi 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.

In the ghc documentation it states that "A package specification is a Haskell record". A Cabal package seems to be a collection of stuff including the .cabal file etc.

Finally, does Hackage use the term "package" differently again?

Rant: package and/or build systems are the bane of my existence in any non-commercial language that I use. Sigh. I have been using Cabal and cabal-install naively (read "blindly") for long enough; time to come to grips with it.

Thanks, if anyone has time to help.

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