diff --git a/doc/getting-started.rst b/doc/getting-started.rst index 921a5ada6ce..f75e0488132 100644 --- a/doc/getting-started.rst +++ b/doc/getting-started.rst @@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ The ``myapp.cabal`` file is a package description file, commonly referred to as hs-source-dirs: app default-language: Haskell2010 +.. warning:: + + The version bounds on base, a boot library distributed with GHC + [#boot-packages]_, are tied to the GHC version visible when ``cabal init`` + is run. If run with a later version of GHC you might see a difference in the + version bounds. + + .. code-block:: diff + + - build-depends: base ^>=4.19.0.0 + + build-depends: base ^>=4.20.0.0 + It contains metadata (package name and version, author name, license, etc.) and sections to define package components. Components can be used to split large codebases into smaller, more managable building blocks. @@ -189,7 +201,7 @@ the following file named ``myscript``: #!/usr/bin/env cabal {- cabal: build-depends: - base ^>=4.19.0.0, + base, haskell-say ^>=1.0.0.0 -} @@ -198,6 +210,21 @@ the following file named ``myscript``: main :: IO () main = haskellSay "Hello, Haskell!" +.. note:: + + Widening or dropping version bound constraints on *packages included with + the compiler* [#boot-packages]_, like ``base``, may allow single-file + scripts to run with a wider range of compiler versions. + + .. code-block:: diff + + build-depends: + - base ^>=4.19.0.0, + + base, + +The necessary sections of a ``.cabal`` file are placed +directly into the script as a comment. + The necessary sections of a package description that would otherwise be in a ``.cabal`` file are placed directly into the script as a comment. @@ -237,3 +264,9 @@ some of the resources on the Haskell website's `documentation page Cabal on the :doc:`What Cabal does ` page. .. _Cabal-7070: https://errors.haskell.org/messages/Cabal-7070/ + +.. [#boot-packages] Packages included with the compiler are also called boot + packages. Each GHC compiler version has accompanying `release notes`_ that + list these included packages. + +.. _release notes: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/release-notes.html