[Haskell-cafe] Cabal (was: Compilers)

[Don Stewart]

kili:
> 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.

And we have tools to automate the packaging of cabal-specified code.
So for example, there are already native packages of LHC, but not of
JHC.

    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21749

Because of the automatic packaging for cabal-specified software.

-- Don