Why is there a cabal file at all?

[Ashish Hanwadikar]

Marc Weber <marco-oweber <at> gmx.de> writes:

> have in a much better way such as installing arbitrary software packages. But 
I
> need to learn more about it before I do know how to proceed.
> 
> So at the moment I think I need another build tool but no longer another
> cross-platform packaging tool.
> 
> I'd like to share my work but I'm not sure wether its worth sharing
> 
> Marc
> 

Thanks for the quick reply. I think the nix system is a pretty good system. I 
will try it out further. Thanks for the info.
Ashish