Re: [jhc] [Question] Should jhc support Cabal? Or should use only yaml?

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Kiwamu Okabe wrote:

Is it easy to support Cabal without upstream developing power?

No. This is my major issue with how cabal is designed. it is very tied to ghc and a 'closed-world' viewpoint where everything fits into its way of doing things. I really really want to design something better at some point. perhaps after another jhc release I'll spec something out (that would not be jhc specific). That said, it wouldn't be impossible to create a heuristic utility to try to compile cabal programs under jhc. I wouldn't want it something built into jhc but it could be something distributed with it. John