[Haskell-cafe] Re: Gut Build System

[Don Stewart]

malcolm.wallace:
>> I'd also like to point to Nix[3] and Cabal[4] for ideas, and I bet  
>> most
>> of the dependency analysis could be ripped from the latter.
>
> Hrrm, sadly Cabal has no dependency analysis at all - everything must be 
> specified by the author of the .cabal file, both modules and packages.

I could imagine a 'cabal inspect' command that checks the .cabal file
against what the repo actually needs might be somewhat useful.

-- Don