New To Cabal - Adding dependencies

[JonathanLorimer]

file to edit: https://github.com/haskell/cabal-userguide/blob/main/src/new_to_cabal/08_adding_dependencies.md

Brief Summary

This is a very important chapter as it will introduce new users to one of the primary use cases of cabal, bringing in external libraries. This should go over all 3 ways of adding dependencies:

• Local packages
• Hackage packages
• Packages as tarballs

There should be some discussion of version bounds, their syntax and semantics, and strategies for organizing version bounds.

Prior Art

Kowainik Blog adding a dependency
Haskell School adding a dependency

Resources

Matt Parson's blog post on version bounding
Old cabal user guide adding dependencies
Old cabal user guide build depends