[Haskell-beginners] Is a ghc package the same as a cabal package?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Philippe Sismondi <psismondi at arqux.com>wrote:

> Is a ghc package the same as a cabal package? As far as I can tell they
> are not. I mean "package" as defined by the documentation for each.
>

Start here: http://www.vex.net/~trebla/haskell/sicp.xhtml

Briefly: a cabal package is a collection of source code, metadata, and
build instructions to create a ghc package. Hackage is a collection of
cabal packages.

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