[Haskell-cafe] Re: Gut Build System

[Achim Schneider]

Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:

> > I'd also like to point to Nix[3] and Cabal[4] for ideas, and I bet  
> > most
> > of the dependency analysis could be ripped from the latter.
> 
> Hrrm, sadly Cabal has no dependency analysis at all - everything
> must be specified by the author of the .cabal file, both modules and  
> packages.
> 
...with analysis I mean figuring out what needs to be done, with that
data as the basis. You're right, of course.

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