Re: [Hackage] #447: do parallel builds

On 2009-01-10 16:01 - (Sat), dunacn wrote: Also downloads seem to be serialised, again because there is probably little benefit to making multiple connections to the same server. You evidently don't live in Japan. :-) On high-bandwidth, high-latency links (e.g., Tokyo to a server in

Technical Discussion of Cabal Improvements

I've not noticed anything but PR and commit traffic on this list in the past couple of weeks; is it also the place to have discussions about (possibly radical) improvements to Cabal? For example, automatic generation of lists of dependent packages and so on? cjs -- Curt Sampson

Re: [Hackage] #423: add option to fetch a single package without dependencies

#423: add option to fetch a single package without dependencies -+-- Reporter: guest |Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [Hackage] #454: file permissions of executable on vista

#454: file permissions of executable on vista +--- Reporter: Toxaris|Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone: Cabal-1.6

Re: [Hackage] #453: cabal fetch should take output arguments

#453: cabal fetch should take output arguments -+-- Reporter: gregorycollins |Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone:

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.6): Enable the global command usage to be set

Tue Jan 13 10:13:03 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Enable the global command usage to be set extend it rather than overriding it. Also rearrange slightly the default global --help output. M ./Distribution/Simple/Command.hs -1 +4 M ./Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs -13 +15

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.6): Swap the order of global usage messages

Tue Jan 13 11:18:10 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Swap the order of global usage messages Put the more important one first. M ./Distribution/Simple/Command.hs -2 +2 View patch online:

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.6): Fix configCompilerAux to consider user-supplied program flags

Tue Dec 9 11:33:20 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Fix configCompilerAux to consider user-supplied program flags This fixes a bug in cabal-install M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs -1 +5 View patch online:

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.6): Update changelog for 1.6.0.2 release

Thu Dec 11 06:22:02 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Update changelog for 1.6.0.2 release M ./changelog +1 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-branches/cabal-1.6/_darcs/patches/20081211142202-adfee-b98a0c2b6d16d232dd3feb94dcf68655d0899112.gz

patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.6): Ban ghc-options: --make

Tue Dec 23 09:06:21 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Ban ghc-options: --make I dunno, some people... M ./Distribution/PackageDescription/Check.hs +4 View patch online:

patch applied (cabal-install): Improve the cabal --help output

Tue Jan 13 11:20:58 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Improve the cabal --help output Put the general info message at the top and make the explanation of installing a hackage package somewhat clearer. M ./Distribution/Client/Setup.hs -10 +11 View patch online:

patch applied (cabal): Enable the global command usage to be set

Tue Jan 13 10:13:03 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Enable the global command usage to be set extend it rather than overriding it. Also rearrange slightly the default global --help output. M ./Distribution/Simple/Command.hs -1 +4 M ./Distribution/Simple/Setup.hs -13 +15

patch applied (cabal): Swap the order of global usage messages

Tue Jan 13 11:18:10 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Swap the order of global usage messages Put the more important one first. M ./Distribution/Simple/Command.hs -2 +2 View patch online:

Re: [Hackage] #413: cabal --help should report the location of the config file

#413: cabal --help should report the location of the config file -+-- Reporter: duncan |Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority:

Re: [Hackage] #452: Improve --help. Add info about installing specific versions and the use of predicates

#452: Improve --help. Add info about installing specific versions and the use of predicates +--- Reporter: guest |Owner: Type: enhancement| Status: closed

patch applied (cabal): The Read instance for License and InstalledPackageInfo is authoritative

Tue Jan 13 15:42:29 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * The Read instance for License and InstalledPackageInfo is authoritative It is ghc's optimised InstalledPackageInfo parser that needs updating. rolling back: Fri Dec 12 18:36:22 GMT 2008 Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li *

[Hackage] #456: `cabal info pkg` command

#456: `cabal info pkg` command -+-- Reporter: duncan |Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal |Milestone: Component:

patch applied (cabal-install): In cabal list, always display available and installed versions

Tue Jan 13 16:33:29 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * In cabal list, always display available and installed versions Previously we omitted the line if it was not installed, or was not available. However that confused people because it was not obvious that it would list both. Now

patch applied (cabal-install): Don't display the category in cabal list output

Tue Jan 13 16:35:49 PST 2009 Duncan Coutts dun...@haskell.org * Don't display the category in cabal list output It is probably not sufficiently useful to justify the space it takes. M ./Distribution/Client/List.hs -4 View patch online: