Re: Removing GHC's dependency on Cabal

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Yuri de Wit wrote:

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Simon Peyton Jones < simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

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To me it seems simple and obvious! Why are we going round the houses to do something so simple?

So cabal can maintain its conceit that it supports more than just ghc.

I don't understand this as an argument against the ghc-db library, which to me also seems the simple and obvious solution.

I did not say it was a *sane* conceit; and in fact my choice of wording there was intended to bring it into question. My experience is Cabal and cabal-install try to maintain this, but in a way that doesn't actually accomplish the goal very well (see for example the abortive attempt at jhc cabal support). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net