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

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-05-16 at 14:08:35 +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> 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

sorry, should have been

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