Friends

You may remember a recent thread on ghc-devs about GHC and Cabal. In it I say how I feel I lack the "big picture" of how GHC and Cabal interact, and that my mental model is probably faulty.

Tom Ellis took pity on me, and together we wrote this big-picture overview about how GHC and Cabal interact. Would you like to:

Read it as a consumer.

Does it tell you stuff that is useful?
What else would you like to know?
What is un-clear or missing?

Read it as an expert.

Is it accurate?
Are any bits misleading?
Do the links go to appropriate places?
What other links or resource would be helpful.

It is not intended as a replacement for the GHC user guide, nor the Cabal user guide; rather it is littered with links to those guides which give much fuller details. Rather, it is intended to put you (well, me for one!) in a position where you can more easily make sense of those documents.

We'd love to have your help in improving it.

Simon