Re: Cabal vs Haskell [sic]

"S. Alexander Jacobson" writes:

With Haskell, the user select the modules to be used to resolve import statements. With Cabal, the author makes the selection (e.g. the build-depends tag). With Haskell, dependencies are between modules. With Cabal, they are between packages.

I don't think that is strictly true - or at least it is true only of the current ghc implementation. In nhc98 at the moment, if package foo build-depends on package bar, then the only requirement is that interface files for bar must be available when foo is built. You can change the implementation of bar at any time after that with no dire consequences, provided only that the interface has not changed. Regards, Malcolm