Priorities for 6.10

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

>  > Does anyone have any objections to us doing this?  I agree it would be a
>  > substantial win.  We should consider cabal-install to be a part of Cabal -
>  > indeed the 'cabal' command is the preferred UI for Cabal now, so to ship
>  > one without the other seems wrong.
>
> We'll also have to include the zlib and HTTP packages, which are
>  dependencies of cabal-install.

Why? I want to ship a binary cabal.exe, which will be pre-linked. If
they want to upgrade cabal, then you'll need to do a cabal install of
them (which is trivial with cabal-install), but otherwise there is no
need for zlib or HTTP.

>  BTW, someone will have to figure out how cabal.exe can replace its own
>  executable file when it wants to upgrade itself (which is pretty
>  important to making the thing self-sustaining).

Yes, that is important, but needs to be tackled anyway.

Thanks

Neil