[Haskell-beginners] Is a ghc package the same as a cabal package?

Kim-Ee Yeoh ky3 at atamo.com
Tue Feb 18 17:35:27 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Philippe Sismondi <psismondi at arqux.com>wrote:

> Rant: package and/or build systems are the bane of my existence in any
> non-commercial language that I use. Sigh. I have been using Cabal and
> cabal-install naively (read "blindly") for long enough; time to come to
> grips with it.


You are not alone.

It's true that cabal works smoothly for lots of users lots of the time. But
when it doesn't, it's murder.

-- Kim-Ee
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