As I mentioned in the call, I'd like the Cabal part of the error message index to thrive (that is, to be the opposite of what it is now). Hécate says Zuri/Muni-hacks will take care of that --- awesome! Hope this happens in my lifetime!
I want cabal-install to be more like package manager in Julia where, when I say import Blah and Blah isn't available locally, it tells me: Blah is not installed but we can do it. Proceed? [Y/n] As per later discussions, it'd be interesting to see how the solver could be friendlier to the users. E.g. if we had a little LLM inside cabal (or interfaced with cabal) that could talk through the grievances that user has, and come up with suggestions like adding a constraint or upgrading GHC or something. -- Best, Artem On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to sort-of get the ball rolling: > > I don't actually have a lot of a stake in Cabal or cabal-install myself; > I mostly work on meta stuff (nursemaiding GHA, maintaining and enhancing > workflows and Mergify config, etc.). But there's a similarly "meta" vision > I have: better interaction with the real stakeholders, to wit, the users. > What are *their* wishes and needs? > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 1:04 PM Theophile Hécate Choutri via cabal-devel < > cabal-devel@haskell.org> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'd like to ask the people who have been working, are involved or are >> dependent on any subsystem of the Cabal project to take some time and think >> about what they would like to see for the future. More directly, I would >> like to ask you to dream about the future. Don't concern yourself with >> implementation, energy or resources, but rather about the direction, and >> the shape of the subsystems that you have a stake in. >> Things like the solver, the UX of such and such sub-command, performance >> of a certain use-case, targeting a certain demographic, a change in how we >> get feedback from end-users… >> >> This will help us with coming up with a product vision that will serve as >> a backbone for the immediate and near-future development of cabal. I >> understand most of us do this in our free time, but that does not make us >> illegitimate to wish for better things, especially when we are involved in >> the long run. >> >> See you all on Matrix and during our bi-monthly meeting. >> >> Cheers, >> Hécate >> _______________________________________________ >> cabal-devel mailing list >> cabal-devel@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >> > > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh > allber...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >
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