Re: Problems building cabal-install?

2023-11-24 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 01:07:37AM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > I am having a rather unexpected difficulty building older versions of > cabal-install. The invariably run into conflicts between "Cabal" and > "Cabal-syntax". > > The latter shows up as a dependency of "Cabal" on hackage, but

Problems building cabal-install?

2023-11-24 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
I am having a rather unexpected difficulty building older versions of cabal-install. The invariably run into conflicts between "Cabal" and "Cabal-syntax". The latter shows up as a dependency of "Cabal" on hackage, but not in the upstream Git repo. Is there is there some sort of problem with the

Upcoming GHC 9.6.4 release

2023-11-24 Thread Zubin Duggal
Hi all, We are planning a release in the 9.6 series before Christmas, with a preliminary ETA of 15th December. Release tracking ticket: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24017 Please use this ticket to request any submodule bumps or for any other discussion related to the release.

Re: Upcoming GHC 9.6.4 release

2023-11-24 Thread Moritz Angermann
Thanks! Backport-freeze for mid-December sounds absolutely reasonable! -Moritz On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 9:39 PM, Zubin Duggal wrote: > Thanks for raising this Moritz. We decided to do the release in December > before we are busy with other matters in January like the 9.10 fork. > However, we do

Re: Upcoming GHC 9.6.4 release

2023-11-24 Thread Zubin Duggal
Thanks for raising this Moritz. We decided to do the release in December before we are busy with other matters in January like the 9.10 fork. However, we do see the burdern this would place on distributors to react just a week before the holidays. We have decided to push the release date to the

Re: Upcoming GHC 9.6.4 release

2023-11-24 Thread Moritz Angermann
Can I suggest the release to be pushed into 2024? Releasing it on the 15th or a few days later will put significant burden onto integrators, and distributors. To react to the ghc release. Especially right before the holiday season for quite some. Cheers, Moritz On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 8:17 PM,