On 16 September 2016 at 04:54, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.ku...@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? > Well, I did not mean closed in that sense. What I meant was it is custom built for a very specific purpose, maybe I chose the wrong word, sorry about that. -harendra
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