[Haskell-cafe] [HF-discuss] Do something about Cabal?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> To fix dependency hell, you need only not cause it in the first place. 
> You have to standardize the language and a useful bit of code that you 
> dub the "standard library." Then anyone writing serious software in your 
> language has to be careful not to break API compatibility, and to use 
> semantic/libtool versioning when doing so is unavoidable. That's an O(n 
> = number of packages) algorithm for detecting breakage because instead 
> of detecting it in every consumer, you're _indicating_ it once.

Isn't this, what we are doing currently? When developing a library we try 
to stay within a major version range as long as possible, but if we need a 
breaking change, we increase the major version and have to adapt depending 
packages.