[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Support tools for development with Cabal and Darcs

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> Would you mind giving me a breif explanation of the "compiling
> multiple local packages in the right order" feature? I'd like to
> understand what is missing in cabal-install in this respect.
>
> Currently with cabal-install you can say:
>
> cabal install ./a ./b ./c
>
> and it will install the packages in those directories in the right
> order. (It is also possible to list other install targets including
> local and remote tarballs, and of course packages from hackage).

I believe that the first version of cabal-sort is older than this 
cabal-install feature. Nonetheless, cabal-sort can be used for other 
purposes, too. E.g. you can use plain Cabal installation, when 'cabal 
install' does not work due to problems in constraint solving. You can 
upload packages in topologically sorted order to Hackage, such that 
building on Hackage works correctly. Is this also done by cabal-install's 
upload command? You can also use cabal-sort for stepping into package 
directories and do some manual updates before installing.

However, I will add references to the new cabal-install features in the 
documentation of cabal-sort.