[Nix-dev] Mixing cabal and Nix? Or: Best way to install development versions of Haskell packages?

[Peter Simons]

Hi Andres,

 >> Cabal and Nix work together just fine.
 >
 > Is this what you're observing, really? 

well, I never had any problems before. Maybe that is because I use
cabal-install rarely, and I never used to it install anything, so I'm
probably inexperienced in that area.

 > An option that I'm using more on more these days, though, is not to
 > use the wrapper at all, but instead use the ghcWithPackages function
 > to build a ghc with a fixed set of associated packages. Then that ghc
 > then works normally with cabal.

That's good to know. 

Take care, 
Peter