29 Nov
2008
29 Nov
'08
2:31 p.m.
kili:
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.
And we have tools to automate the packaging of cabal-specified code. So for example, there are already native packages of LHC, but not of JHC. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21749 Because of the automatic packaging for cabal-specified software. -- Don