On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Yuri de Wit <yde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Simon Peyton Jones < >> simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> >>> To me it seems simple and obvious! Why are we going round the houses to >>> do something so simple? >> >> >> So cabal can maintain its conceit that it supports more than just ghc. >> > > I don't understand this as an argument against the ghc-db library, which > to me also seems the simple and obvious solution. > I did not say it was a *sane* conceit; and in fact my choice of wording there was intended to bring it into question. My experience is Cabal and cabal-install try to maintain this, but in a way that doesn't actually accomplish the goal very well (see for example the abortive attempt at jhc cabal support). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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