[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell-community] technical thoughts on stack

[Harendra Kumar]

On 16 September 2016 at 04:54, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.kumar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> How about cabal-install using the YAML format as hpack has proven that it
>> works very well for expressing the existing .cabal files? YAML is simple,
>> flexible and open, used across many tools so the knowledge of format is
>> more widely sharable which has its advantages. Are there reasons to keep
>> using the cabal format other than the legacy reasons and the pain of asking
>> everyone to move to another format?
>
>
> Could you explain what aspect of a format for which all code and
> documentation is open source defines it as "closed" to you?
>

Well, I did not mean closed in that sense. What I meant was it is custom
built for a very specific purpose, maybe I chose the wrong word, sorry
about that.

-harendra
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20160916/5de5cc39/attachment.html>