[Nix-dev] Merging haskell stuff - missing features?

[Isaac Dupree]

Marc Weber wrote:
>         * better support for adding C libraries as dependencies (I'm
>           using a manual patchPhase using sed.. :(
>           Doing this properly means patching cabal

> Probably expressions should be automatically generated from hackage..
> If we start this we still need to feed in a list of patches per package
> to fix Setup.hs files and add library dependencies. I think it's better
> to fix Setup.hs files compared to using older cabal versions.

Fixes? Patches? In general, try to communicate with Haskell people to 
reduce the amount of patching that's necessary in the long run.  We 
Haskellers tend to be sympathetic to Nix.  No worries, I see you're 
already on cabal-devel mailing-list, and I don't actually know the 
details of what you're doing so I could be missing the mark a little..

thanks,
Isaac