I'm not again putting out another release, but I'd prefer to make it on top of 1.20 if possible. Making a 1.22 release takes much more work (RC time, etc). Which are the patches in question. Can they easily be cherry-picked onto the 1.20 branch? Are there any risk of breakages?
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hey all, > > SPJ pointed out to me today that if you try to run: > > cabal install --with-ghc=/path/to/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 > > with the latest GHC HEAD, this probably will not actually work, because > your system installed version of Cabal is probably too old to deal with > the new package key stuff in HEAD. So, how do you get a version > of cabal-install (and Cabal) which is new enough to do what you need > it to? > > The trick is to compile Cabal using your /old/ GHC. Step-by-step, this > involves cd'ing into libraries/Cabal/Cabal and running `cabal install` > (or install it in a sandbox, if you like) and then cd'ing to > libraries/Cabal/cabal-install and cabal install'ing that. > > Cabal devs, is cutting a new release of Cabal and cabal-install in the > near future possible? In that case, users can just cabal update; cabal > install cabal-install and get a version of Cabal which will work for > them. > > Cheers, > Edward > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >
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