[Haskell-cafe] MTL vs Transformers?

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> However after reading the hackage descriptions of both Transformers and
> MTL, it seems that they share a very similar heritage. I therefore hacked
> the iteratee.cabal file and replaced the build-depends on transformers
> with one on mtl and the package built quite happily. I'll play with it
> a bit to see if its working correctly.

I think the standard solutions are
* use Cabal for your project and/or
* use the PackageImports extension.

HTH,

Martijn.