Thanks for these comments Simon. It is good to have a sanity-check on these proposals before they go before a broad audience. I'll try to take them into account and submit this properly as a proposal (including creating the associated discussion thread) in the next few days. If anyone else has any thoughts (bear in mind this involves cross-cutting changes across cabal files and a bit of ghc) please send them on.
On "Does a particular build have to use packages from one repo only?" -- the idea is that _per package_ a provenance may be specified to a specific repo. If no provenance is specified, then there is the current existing "search path-like" functionality where a chain of overlays may live over a repo. The proposal does not address that, because it is how things work already -- although arguably, the way in which this works may be insufficiently understood among existing cabal users? (In fact, looking at the cabal documentation, I see that the description of multiple remote repos doesn't specify the manner in which they are combined, which it should). Cheers, Gershom On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Gershom > > Looks like a great idea. > > Lots of questions though: > > > - I think more motivation would be helpful. E.g. "You are in change > of the GHC 8.6 release. Package authors don't want to upload a new > version of their packages until 8.6 is out, but you still want to > smoke-test 8.6 against their packages. Doing so requires some minor > changes (version bounds, changes in base-library APIs etc); so you > want to be able to make these changes in a sandbox that won't hurt > anyone". Or something like that. > > Maybe describe other use-cases. It's *much* easier to evaluate > a proposal when I'm totally clear what it's for. > > - Does a particular build have to use packages from one repo only? > Or is there something like a "search path"? > > Thanks! > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: cabal-devel [mailto:cabal-devel-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf > | Of Gershom B > | Sent: 19 February 2018 00:26 > | To: cabal-devel <cabal-devel@haskell.org> > | Subject: draft proposal on provenance-qualified dependencies > | > | Hey all, I mentioned (on the long SLURP thread) that I was thinking > | about a general proposal for provenance-qualified dependencies to > | reduce coupling in the haskell ecosystem. Having worked it out a bit, > | I think the bigger win is it also provides a way to specify > | dependencies on git repos, etc., which has been an oft-requested > | feature. > | > | I don't want to submit it as an ecosystem proposal proper without > | further polish, and I held off on bugging a larger audience of cabal > | folks until the 2.2 branch was cut. So now I'm passing this along for > | further comment and polish before I make a real proposal: > | https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithu > | b.com%2Fgbaz%2Fghc-proposals%2Fblob%2Fpatch-1%2Fproposals%2F0000- > | provenance-qualified- > | imports.rst&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C64fd20012b9a4b24d > | 28508d5772f6cf2%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636545967 > | 936143539%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIi > | LCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C- > | 1&sdata=cH0gNADmzA%2BTkmXZEDY6lLYUTx2D2KX%2B3T8KO%2FvU86s%3D&reserved= > | 0 > | > | There's no urgency, but it would be good to get some feedback in the > | next few weeks if possible. > | > | Cheers, > | Gershom > | _______________________________________________ > | cabal-devel mailing list > | cabal-devel@haskell.org > | https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.h > | askell.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fcabal- > | devel&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C64fd20012b9a4b24d28508d > | 5772f6cf2%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636545967936143 > | 539%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTi > | I6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C- > | 1&sdata=fgfMNTNt%2BwEQ5PaTKxtl0bmO7wDv9sBiMUnWSbJhcnE%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
