On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:17 PM Anthony Cowley <acowley@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

The suggestion to use "cabal install --dependencies-only ..." instead
of "cabal freeze" in that issue is really nicely presented. "cabal
freeze" is close to the right thing, but it's just not as fully
featured as "cabal install" (e.g. taking flags).

As for Stackage, I think it would be helpful to cache the full build
plans computed for each package in Stackage. This is most of the work
my Nix tooling currently does, so it would be a big time saver.

By "full build plans," do you mean the dist/setup-config file, or something else? That file would be problematic since it's Cabal-library-version specific IIRC. If you're looking for the full listing of deep dependencies and versions, we can extract that from the .yaml file using the technique I mentioned earlier.

Michael