[Haskell-cafe] Cabal (was: Compilers)

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:45PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:

Personally, I look at it this way. Both build systems have different advantages that the other cannot provide but they are not mutually exclusive.

I don't see any advantage in Cabal, except that a .cabal file provides some metadata and dependency information that can help the build.

Also, the effort to keep them both working for the respective groups of users is rather small in practice.

At least in ghc, the mixture of make and Cabal was a huge failure. Ciao, Kili