Re: Why is there a cabal file at all?

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:41:57PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote:

Marc points out that the expressiveness of the Cabal language is insufficient for some packages, and a DSEL would be more expressive. Sorry, I've never heard abaut DSEL yet. I still feel like beening a total beginner.. ;) But I'll try to fill this lack of knowledge. I was thinking in IO monads as I didn't know something better..

Conal : Can you help me lifting my skills and tell me in some sentences how a build system could benefit from DSELs? Marc