Hi Michael, thanks for your comments!
- The allBuildInfo change is https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/8fc10320a5dc4898927c84ad6a2dce7965ef30db, I agree with Herbert on this. New `allBuildInfo` implementation is correct given the name. There was even a TODO to make that change. `reallyAllBuildInfo` would been silly. I also didn't felt ok to change the type to `Traversal` (we have lenses, please try out them too and tell if something is missing!). We'll highlight the change in the changelog, as it's easy to miss. - The lack of SPDX changelog entry is my bad. It was a series of patches, and the changelog + manual update is still not done. I try to summarise: - `cabal-version: 2.2` files use SPDX expression syntax for `license: ` field. PackageDescription's licenseRaw will be Left expr, expr :: Distribution.SPDX.License.License - `cabal-version: 2.0` files still use old `License` syntax and type, licenseRaw is `Right l`, l :: Distribution.License.License - I recommend treating the field as opaque. You can `either display display` to show it - Next best choice is to use `SPDX.License` as in that direction conversion is lossless (licenseToSPDX), but have to workaround lack of e.g. `OtherLicense` as a concept (IIRC it's converted to LicenseRef:OtherLicense which is valid SPDX-License-Id). This might be necessary if you plan to read (human readable) text back. Oleg On 20.02.2018 15:47, Michael Snoyman wrote: > Hi all, > > Oleg mentioned to me on Reddit that a 2.2 branch has been cut for > Cabal, and recommended we try to upgrade Stack to it. I'm sharing > information here on that process in case it's useful to others, either > as feedback on the API changes, or help for others going through > similar upgrades. If anyone would rather that I do or do not post such > reports in the future, let me know. > > I've opened a PR for this change[1], which currently is a single > commit[2]. As you can see from the change to stack.yaml[3], I needed > to refer to the commit of Cabal in question, and turn on `allow-newer` > for some packages (cabal-doctest and http-api-data) with restrictive > upper bounds on Cabal. Both of these packages compiled without issue. > > No change was necessary to Stack's Setup.hs file. > > Most of the changes so far were compile-time errors, which is a Good > Thing. Changes I had to make: > > * The build type is no longer a Maybe field. (As a user: this is a > nice change, no longer a need to guess about what a Nothing value means.) > * There are now two License types, the original one and the SPDX > variant. I don't understand what this change is about, some further > explanation in the docs or the ChangeLog would definitely be > appreciated. But hacking my way through the types seems to have worked. > * Parsing a package description now works on a ByteString instead of a > String. This allowed me to remove some UTF8 conversion and > BOM-stripping code, which is very nice. > * The new parsing API exposes the cabal file version when that > prevented the parse (at least, that's my understanding). The changes > to accommodate the new API were relatively trivial, so another +1 here. > * Also: getting file position information for warnings and errors is > _very_ nice. +1 > > I haven't done extensive testing yet, but I've so far only found one > bug due to runtime changes: the behavior of allBuildInfo has changed > to now include non-buildable components. This resulted in some > confusion until I reviewed the changelog more closely. If I could make > a request, it would be that, in the future, new runtime behavior come > with a new function name, to convert runtime errors into compile time > errors. This was _not_ a particularly difficult issue to work around > though, in large part thanks to the changelog. > > I'll continue testing this branch of Stack. Our plans are to merge > this to master, and release Stack 1.7.0 close to the Cabal 2.2 release > date. > > Michael > > [1] https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/3878/files > [2] > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/3878/commits/a101341d04213d6dd8e0cf16d2f2fef8e7ed5cd5 > [3] > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/pull/3878/commits/a101341d04213d6dd8e0cf16d2f2fef8e7ed5cd5#diff-fafd0cdcd559a7b124cc61c29413fb54 > > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
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