Sorry to bring this thread to live again but… How the **** does cabal work? I am working in some project with two branches. Between both, there is bearly no changes in the cabal file. Something like this:
master
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HEAD
\ feature branch
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commit-1
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commit-2; adds some modules to .cabal but not dependencies
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HEAD
I would expect that if I am in feature branch and build the project, then If I change to master the only thing that needs to be build is the application itself, but not the dependencies… I am still waiting for many dependencies to be downloaded (just a few of them) and build (many of them).
So how does cabal internally works? is there any sort of whole-programm-compilation? Is there any way to avoid building dependencies which have been build, literally, one hour ago?