[jhc] [Question] Should jhc support Cabal? Or should use only yaml?

[Kiwamu Okabe]

Hi Brandon.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Arguably its the other way around, as you found in the Cabal source:  jhc
> can use whatever it wants, while it would be nice if Cabal (and hence
> cabal-install) supported jhc.
>
> Whether jhc uses Cabal internally is not relevant to whether cabal supports
> jhc: for example, cabal supports Hugs, which does not itself support (and
> can't support, given how it works) cabal.

I don't understand Cabal completely.
Cabal library is compiled by jhc or GHC?
And jhc does not have database such as ghc-pkg.
Is it easy to support Cabal without upstream developing power?

Now we have yaml format. And jhc use it.
It's true.

Best regards,
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Kiwamu Okabe