[Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

[Imants Cekusins]

> Would cabal-install need to link in all these maintained libraries
statically? Or would there be some plug-in mechanism to load them on demand?

well the libraries would need to be official and some with the packager.​

the formats would be perfectly interchangeable i.e.
cabal -> standard_type -> yaml -> standard_type -> json -> standard_type ->
cabal
would produce the same cabal file

only 1 config file per package to avoid confusion

however if the user prefers working with format F, they can always convert
the format which came with the package, to F

the file can always be validated by virtue of parsing and reproducing the
original file without errors.


it comes at a price of duplicated efforts however it would give every
choice one can wish for. If one must use yaml, they use yaml etc.
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