[Haskell-cafe] Using Cabal during development

[Limestraël]

Okay, but have you ever felt the need to make in the same project a library
and an executable which depends on this library (even just like me, for
testing purpose)? How would you do it?


Jason Dusek wrote:
> 
>   My development environment is a Screen with Bash, Vim and GHCi
>   running.
> 
>   If I can just load the files in GHCi or compile them with GHC
>   without specifying many options or extensions, then I just do
>   it that way. As soon as I feel a need to write a Makefile or a
>   little build script, I write a Cabal file instead and switch
>   to using `cabal-install'.
> 
>   When I say "many" options or extensions, I nearly mean "any".
>   Most projects of mine get a Cabal file at the point where I
>   feel the need for the first `LANGUAGE' pragma. (I usually omit
>   `LANGUAGE' pragmas, delegating to Cabal for that. I'm not sure
>   whether this is good or bad practice.)
> 
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