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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Duncan, Mark, Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Here&#8217;s another cry of pain:
<a href="http://fluffynukeit.com/2013/02/reflections-after-a-hard-day-in-haskell-gui-land/">
http://fluffynukeit.com/2013/02/reflections-after-a-hard-day-in-haskell-gui-land/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&#8220;</span>Cabal is a frustratingly constraining tool.&nbsp; Far too frequently I encountered packages that, when trying to install, would say installing this package will
 break a dozen others.&nbsp; If not that, then I often would be notified that the dependencies could not be resolved.&nbsp;&#8220;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">What is frustrating that we KNOW how to fix this, don&#8217;t we? &nbsp;(Allow multiple installations of package P-3.2.5, each depending on different versions of its dependencies.) &nbsp;We just need to
 liberate enough effort to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Indeed, more people seem to be joining in with GHC/Cabal these days.&nbsp; How hard would it be to write a detailed description of the implementation changes needed to support side-by-side installations,
 and project-manage a group to do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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