Cabal has been associated with a group of five ministers in the government of England's King Charles II. The initial letters of the names or titles of those men (Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale) spelled cabal, and they have been collectively dubbed as the "Cabal Cabinet" or "Cabal Ministry." But these five names are not the source of the word cabal, which was in use decades before Charles II ascended the throne. The term traces back to cabbala, the Medieval Latin name for the Kabbalah, a traditional system of esoteric Jewish mysticism. Latin borrowed Cabbala from the Hebrew qabbālāh, meaning "received or traditional lore."
A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group. The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy and secrecy.[1][2] It can also refer to a secret plot or a clique, or it may be used as a verb (to form a cabal or secretly conspire).[1][3]
It came into English via the French cabale from the medieval Latin cabbala, and was known early in the 17th century through usages linked to Charles II and Oliver Cromwell. By the middle of the 17th century, it had developed further to mean some intrigue entered into by a small group and also referred to the group of people so involved, i.e. a semi-secret political clique.[6]
In Dutch, the word kabaal, also kabale or cabale, was used during the 18th century in the same way. The Friesche Kabaal (Frisian Cabal) denoted the Frisian pro-Orange nobility which supported the stadholderate, but also had great influence on stadtholders Willem IV and Willem V and their regents, and therefore on the matters of state in the Dutch Republic.[10] This influence came to an end when the major Frisian nobles at the court fell out of favor. The word nowadays has the meaning of noise, uproar, racket.[11] It was derived as such from French and mentioned for the first time in 1845.[12]
Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory use "The Cabal" to refer to what is perceived as a secret worldwide elite organization who, according to proponents, wish to undermine democracy and freedom, and implement their own globalist agendas.[13]
Cabal is a system for building and packaging Haskell libraries and programs. It defines a common interface for package authors and distributors to easily build their applications in a portable way. Cabal is part of a larger infrastructure for distributing, organizing, and cataloging Haskell libraries and programs.
The term cabal can refer to either: cabal-the-spec (.cabal files), cabal-the-library (code that understands .cabal files), or cabal-the-tool (the cabal-install package which provides the cabal executable); usually folks are referring to cabal-the-tool when they say cabal.
To install the cabal executable you can use ghcup (if you're using Linux), the Haskell Platform, install the cabal-install package from your distributions package manager (if using Linux or Mac), or download the source or prebuilt binary from the Download page. If you already have the cabal executable you can upgrade it by running: cabal install cabal-install
Sometimes the older installed version is still on the program search $PATH, you can check you're running the latest version with the command below. If it doesn't match the output of the cabal-install command above you'll need to replace the old executable with the new one.
cabal --version
Before you try anything else, you may want to refresh the package index: cabal update
If you already have a new-ish version of cabal you can use the v2/new commands. Try the following: cabal new-install Cabal cabal-install
If this works, update the cabal command on your $PATH with the version installed. Some alternative installation methods from source code are described in the Cabal source repository.
This can happen if your package archive gets into a broken state. How to fix this depends on the situation. Sometimes re-running the command with --force-reinstalls works, other times you have to remove your whole package archive and start over again.
I switched reluctantly to stack years ago. I understand that cabal improved lots since then and has some benefit (especially less disk space If I am right).
So is it worth switching back to cabal and if so how to ?
Switching is usually a matter of running hpack one last time, learning about the latest syntax of Cabal files to clean things up, learning about Cabal projects to recover a lot of the features I (for one) needed most from Stack, and just using cabal build, cabal test, and cabal repl. Plenty of things are still easier to do with Stack, and if you run into one, I hope that there is an issue about it. If not, please open it.
I like Stack for general development. The snapshot is a quick way of knowing all of my deps are pinned, and any packages not in the snapshot have to explicitly be mentioned in extra-deps. You can write a cabal.freeze file to act like a snapshot, but cabal doesnt error if you use a package thats not there (and thus not pinned).
The stack ls tools command will list the tools (principally versions of GHC) that Stack has installed given specified snapshots (if you are using Stack to manage GHC, rather than GHCup) - see ls command - The Haskell Tool Stack.
I recently ran into a Cabal issue that I only managed to solve by manually installing transformers-compat with the -f transformers3 flag in my cabal sandbox before running cabal install for my project.
Looks like it's not possible to specify such a dependency via the build-depends field in your .cabal file. buildDepends is defined as [Dependency], where data Dependency = Dependency PackageName VersionRange. You can use cabal install --constraint="transformers-compat +transformers3", though.
Looking at the transformers-compat.cabal file, I think that the solver should be able to figure out the correct flag assignment if you constrain your dependency on transformers appropriately. E.g. build-depends: transformers >= 0.3 && < 0.4 should force the solver to choose transformers-compat +transformers3. If this doesn't work, it may be a bug in the solver.
This enables the openblas flag for the hmatrix package. It will be used automatically the next time the package is installed. If there is a way to set such a flag locally for a sandbox, I could not find it.
To summarize the email thread, it sounds like GCC is used directly by cabal configure, and GCC is patched in nixpkgs to looks at environment variables like NIX_LDFLAGS. nix-shell (or is it stdenv.mkDerivation?) automatically populates NIX_LDFLAGS based on buildInputs. This chain of events causes cabal build to work.
I guess there is also an argument to be made that we should wrap GHC in nixpkgs to make it aware of things like NIX_LDFLAGS. However, in the email thread linked above, peti makes the argument that he would rather have users using ghcWithPackages than raw cabal + GHC.
[2023-10-17T19:44+02:00] Cabal's discovery layer is back UP. Four new community-run bootstrap nodes have been deployed, supplementing the 3 nodes from the DHT vendor. cabal-cli has been updated to 15.0.0; please update for normal connectivity. cabal-desktop remains unpatched. The public cabal is once again being used to coordinate development.
[2023-10-16T19:22+02:00] Cabal's discovery layer is DOWN due to changes in the underlying DHT. New bootstrap nodes are being worked on. We aim to issue a patch for cabal-cli within 24h, and will try to patch cabal-desktop within 7 days. IRC is being used to coordinate fixes.
Cabal works over the internet, but also lets you chat over the local network. If offline, you can still browse your full chat history, and send messages that will be sync'd with any future peers you connect to.
Current and former FBI officials worry damage to the Bureau's reputation might make witnesses or others hesitate when dealing with special agents in the field. Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
It has been called a "criminal cabal" rife with corruption. It's been said that its leaders need to be taken out in "handcuffs." And its reputation, one high-placed official has charged, is "in tatters."
The FBI has come under criticism before, but the ongoing barrage of allegations has left its current and former officials shaken. It also has fueled concerns that the bureau's reputation with the public could begin to crumble.
"We're very concerned about the credibility of the FBI because we're having to defend it on a daily basis and we've never had to do that before," said Chris Swecker, who finished his 24-year bureau career as an acting assistant director.
Host Jeanine Pirro told viewers in December that "there is a cleansing needed in our FBI and Department of Justice," while Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch said "there was no distinction between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Department of Justice and the FBI."
The bureau's critics point to anti-Trump text messages sent by a senior FBI agent involved in the Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe. They say those texts support their claims that the FBI is tainted by political bias.
It's difficult to gauge whether the allegations have gained traction with the American public. Anecdotally, at least, former agents say they've had to answer family, friends and even strangers who have one question: what is going on with the FBI?
"We all get asked that. Even FBI agents ask that to each other. What's going on with the bureau? What do you know? Who do you talk to? What have you heard?" said Stephanie Douglas, a retired FBI executive assistant director for the National Security Branch.
"And what hurts, I think, is that in my conversations with neighbors and friends and family, there are some people who believe it," Swecker said. "If enough people believe it, it will have an impact on the agents on the street trying to conduct their investigation. They rely on people talking to them and believing in the credibility of the FBI."
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