On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Limestraël
Eventually, I think using cabal during development may be convenient. The only drawback is that you have to specify each dependency...
I actually think this is a benefit, not a drawback. In one of my projects where I used makefiles, I was depending on a variety of hackage projects. I was using development code from one of these that had not yet made it onto hackage. There was a period of time where I didn't do much development, and when I came back, I updated to the most recent development code and discovered that it broke my build. Since I didn't have all my dependencies specified and didn't know which devel version I had been using, I was unable to build the project until I fixed all the places where the update to the other package broke my code. If you are on a tight time schedule, this could be very problematic, whereas if you had specified the dependencies, cabal would easily be able to get the right versions for you.