<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div style>cabal-install 1.16.0 and 1.16.0.1 have some serious bugs that one encounters rather quickly. For example, at work I wasted some time until I figured out that cabal was generating a 'Paths_' module that does not compile. Because of this, you can't even use it to install a newer version of itself, where the problem is fixed: you have to manually bootstrap the new version with the script! </div>
<div style><br></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)">I think it would be quite unfortunate to make yet another GHC release that ships with it, let alone add it to the Haskell platform.</span></div>
<div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)"><br></span></div><div style><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)">-Iavor</span></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)"><br></span></i></div><div style>
<i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)"><br></span></i></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Ian Lynagh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@well-typed.com" target="_blank">ian@well-typed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:<br>
><br>
> In the absence of a GHC-7.6.3, I'm not sure if it's practical for the HP<br>
> to bump the Cabal version.<br>
<br>
</div>My proposal was 7.6.3 was a minimal release in a very short timeframe,<br>
to just fix #7748. Any additional changes introduce a possibility of<br>
regression. If you think that 7.6.2+1.16.0 would be OK, then it sounds<br>
like the fixes in 1.16.0.3 wouldn't be worth the risk (there are a<br>
number of GHC fixes that we won't be merging either, for the same<br>
reason).<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Ian<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
ghc-devs mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>