[OSR] What do you like or dislike in Cabal?

[OSR] What do you like or dislike in Cabal?

[Gabriel Kerneis]

Hello everybody,

to clear things up a bit, could you please tell what you like and
dislike in the Cabal system?

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Packaging <= this one is
particularly interesting, I think.

Please, assume that any tool described in these pages is plain Ocaml
instead of Haskell, just to avoid useless flamewars.

To my mind, the main weakness is that it doesn't provide (yet) a simple
way to install Cabal packages. This is the target of cabal-install.

Would you like such a system for Ocaml? If yes, I think we can manage to
make it suit our needs. If no, what would you change?

Regards,
-- 
Gabriel Kerneis

Re: [Caml-list] [OSR] What do you like or dislike in Cabal?

[Nicolas Pouillard]

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Excerpts from Gabriel Kerneis's message of Wed Jan 30 13:00:10 +0100 2008:
> Hello everybody,
Hello,

> to clear things up a bit, could you please tell what you like and
> dislike in the Cabal system?
> 
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Packaging <= this one is
> particularly interesting, I think.
> 
> Please, assume that any tool described in these pages is plain Ocaml
> instead of Haskell, just to avoid useless flamewars.
> 
> To my mind, the main weakness is that it doesn't provide (yet) a simple
> way to install Cabal packages. This is the target of cabal-install.

That's  right.  But  from  a developer point of view, that's not the priority.
Doing it this order would works for OCaml too.

> Would you like such a system for Ocaml? If yes, I think we can manage to
> make it suit our needs. If no, what would you change?

I would perhaps avoid the custom language approach and use a plain OCaml file.
However that's the only drawback I came up with.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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