16 Mar
2026
16 Mar
'26
3:22 a.m.
I'd argue that one is the fault of Backpack itself: it's inherently
GHC-specific and was intended to be used with tooling (that is, Cabal). It
really needed to be a language feature instead of a tooling hack, IMO.
On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM amindfv@mailbox.org
On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:35:45AM +0900, Moritz Angermann via ghc-devs wrote:
I think this highlights another point where cabal is _way_ too tightly coupled with the haskell compiler.
Another example might be the apparently-tight coupling between Backpack and Cabal.
Cheers, Tom
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