Convenience in the Haskell ecosystem

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Also to guaranatee that the cabal file matches version of ghc and HLS maybe that should be a job for ghcup (rather than cabal). Ghcup generates you a cabal file for the version you selected.

GHCup is an installer, not a cabal file templating mechanism.

This is exactly why we need unix philosophy: tool boundaries shouldn’t be violated, just because an existing tool is popular.

A unix compatible solution to this is already proposed:

An external command system for cabal: what would you do with it?

Hi everyone! Cabal is receiving a contribution that implements an external command system like the one implemented by git and cargo. The idea is that when you call cabal <external>, cabal will look for cabal-<external> in your PATH, and set up environment variables like cabal exec. The idea for us cabal developers is to be able to experiment with new sub-options before integrating them into the cabal-install code base. But we are also interested in what you would like to do with such a featur…