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

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 23:24:52 UTC 2016


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?

-- 
brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
allbery.b at gmail.com                                  ballbery at sinenomine.net
unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        http://sinenomine.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/attachments/20160915/bb723641/attachment.html>


More information about the Haskell-community mailing list