Tony Morris

i think @GabrielG439 said this in a talk once and i've found it a useful thing to remember sometimes: > Cabal was built for managing packages (a single package) whereas Stack was built more for managing *projects*, that is, a collection of packages

Does stack work yet?

Stack is the only way I could get them building so I'd have to say yes.

I am constantly helping people, especially beginners, who trip over stack, but "not using stack." Cabal at least works. Try nix.

I know you beat this particular horse to death but stack has always worked for me when I need it, and I do use Nix.

Well, the horse is beating itself to death. I don't go out of my way to care about stack, yet there it is, breaking constantly for beginners. You'll see, there'll be one at the next FP course, there always is, "It's not working, why? By the way, I used stack."

The root problem here is that neither Stack nor Cabal had a formal requirements gathering phase like Nix did in Eelco's thesis. As a result, nobody can say for certain whether Stack/Cabal "work" if there is no specification for what it means for them to "work"