[Haskell-cafe] Eager forking on Hackage and inter-library compatibility

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-05-16 at 13:10:13 +0200, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Teach cabal how to install packages from a URL

cabal install <url-to-tarball>

> or even a git repository, like go or npm can.

not yet available as a single command, but the following comes close:

cabal get -s <package-name> && cd <package-name-ver> && cabal install