[Haskell-beginners] Cabal Dependency Hell

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Peter Hall <peter.hall at memorphic.com>wrote:

> > The GHC devs know a better solution is needed; unfortunately, the best
> they've come up with is a proposal to build everything against
> > everything else in every possible combination....
>
> Surely that isn't necessary; it could be done lazily. That is, compile
> every combination that is actually demanded by their respective cabal
> files. No?
>

That is probably how it would be done, but it still means potentially a
combinatorial explosion of libraries, plus a lot of extra building
sometimes that you might not expect because "isn't that already built?!".

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