30 Jan
2013
30 Jan
'13
5:48 p.m.
Excerpts from Ramana Kumar's message of Wed Jan 30 14:46:26 -0800 2013:
This argument seems specious. Whether or not cabal-install is or not intended to be a package manager, users expect it to act like one (as users expect rubygems to be a package manager), and, at the end of the day, that is what matters.
But playing along with their delusion might make it harder to change their minds.
Looking at the library ecosystems of the most popular programming languages, I think this ship has already sailed. Edward