24 Jul
2014
24 Jul
'14
2:03 p.m.
Hi,
On 24 July 2014 15:56, Edward Z. Yang
We were wondering if there was any reason to prefer the former situation over the latter. One answer might be that Cabal is less keen to have a dependency on a very GHC specific library (although the ghc-pkg dependency is quite a fairly tightly coupled one.)
If this new proposal will allow us not to ship Cabal with GHC, then I think it's preferable to the old one. For example, Haskell Platform is often forced to use an old version of Cabal because the Cabal version is determined by the GHC version.