2011

Someone on #haskell last night was looking for a tool to convert a cabal-install package description to JSON. I hacked something together a while back to do exactly this for the cabal-waf project. While it’s not worthy of a standalone release on hackage it might be useful for someone else out there.

I just published a little Cabal tool for waf to GitHub. We’ve been using it for quite a while for our builds, including a CI buildbot. Managing a moderate number of packages with cabal-install was getting to be a hassle… and supporting multiple languages (primarily concerning C++) in one build system was a looming requirement. cabal-dev might be an alternative for pure Haskell shops, though I haven’t used it.

I often have the luxury of finding all sorts of underdocumented compile errors in GHC, and today was no exception. This wasn’t the first time I’ve hit this one in particular but it’s the first time I didn’t have a easy work around.