On 14 December 2012 23:33, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ben Millwood <hask...@benmachine.co.uk> > wrote: >> Do we therefore have no interest in compilers other than GHC? Can we >> drop all instances of ifdef __HUGS__ from the code? >> >> I think doing so would require a reasonable amount of work, but would >> significantly lower the barrier to contributing to Cabal. > > I think so. To my knowledge there's no one who's actively maintaining > and testing the Hugs support in Cabal. It's most likely broken.
We should distinguish the compilers that can build Cabal, from those that cabal supports. Cabal supports several compilers that cannot themselves build Cabal. I am happy to drop the support for building Cabal using hugs and nhc as I don't believe they have been used for some years. In particular this will let us fully use new-style IO exceptions, and the new createProcess function. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
