[Haskell-cafe] Cabal (was: Compilers)

[Matthias Kilian]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:45PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
>  Personally, I look at it this way.  Both build systems have different
> advantages that the other cannot provide but they are not mutually
> exclusive.

I don't see any advantage in Cabal, except that a .cabal file
provides some metadata and dependency information that can help the
build.

> Also, the effort to keep them both working for the respective
> groups of users is rather small in practice.

At least in ghc, the mixture of make and Cabal was a huge failure.

Ciao,
	Kili