Cabal and GHC: the big picture

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Friends

You may remember a recent thread on ghc-devs about GHC and Cabal
<https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2024-July/021678.html>.  In it
I say how I feel I lack the "big picture" of how GHC and Cabal interact,
and that my mental model is probably faulty.

Tom Ellis took pity on me, and together we wrote this big-picture overview
about how GHC and Cabal interact
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQEpV3fYz1pHi64KTnlv8gifh9ONQ-jytk5sIHqnV9U/edit?usp=sharing>.
Would you like to:

   - Read it as a consumer.
      - Does it tell you stuff that is useful?
      - What else would you like to know?
      - What is un-clear or missing?
   - Read it as an expert.
      - Is it accurate?
      - Are any bits misleading?
      - Do the links go to appropriate places?
      - What other links or resource would be helpful.

It is not intended as a replacement for the GHC user guide, nor the Cabal
user guide; rather it is littered with links to those guides which give
much fuller details.  Rather, it is intended to put you (well, me for one!)
in a position where you can more easily make sense of those documents.

We'd love to have your help in improving it.

Simon
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