as promised, sudo cabal install plugins
works out of the box now. that's nice :) thomas. 2008/6/6 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everyone, > > == Cabal-1.4 release candidate == > > The second release candidate of Cabal-1.4 is out: > http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html > > Please test and report bugs: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ > > The aim for the Cabal-1.4 release is to get various fixes and > improvements into the hands of developers and to support a release of > cabal-install. > > == cabal-install == > > A snapshot of cabal-install is also available: > http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html > > It requires the zlib and HTTP packages (both are available from > hackage). Bug reports should go in the same trac as above. > > cabal-install is intended to be the standard command line interface to > the whole Cabal/Hackage system. It replaces the "runhaskell Setup.hs" > interface and a few other tools you may or may not have heard of > (cabal-setup, cabal-upload, cabal-get). cabal-install is usable now and > we will be making a proper release some time after the Cabal-1.4 > release. > > == Testing == > > We are particularly interested in finding regressions from Cabal-1.2.x > or any important fixes that will require API changes since once we > release 1.4 we have to maintain API compatibility for the rest of the > 1.4.x series. > > This is also an excellent opportunity to make sure your favourite bug or > feature request is properly described in our bug tracker: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ > > To help us guide development priorities please add yourself to the > ticket's cc list and describe why that bug or feature is important to > you. > > == Compatibility == > > We have tried to preserve compatibility with all packages that worked > with the Cabal-1.2.x series. That is, packages that can be built using > Cabal (including custom Setup.hs scripts) but not packages that directly > import and use the Cabal API. Packages that directly import and use the > Cabal api will need updating. This affects packages that build distro > packages for example, rpm debs etc. > > Currently we know of only one package on hackage which has a Setup.hs > script that compiles with 1.2 but fail to compile with 1.4. Takusen, > will require an update to be able to work with both Cabal-1.2.x and > 1.4.x. A patch has been sent to the maintainers of Takusen. > > == Credits == > > On behalf of the Cabal hackers and the community generally I'd like to > thank the large number of people who have contributed patches during > this development series. Previously I was rather worried that we were > not getting enough contributors to fix bugs and do new feature > development, but now I'm very pleased. :-) > > == Get involved == > > Of course there's still a lot to do! We have big plans for Cabal-2.0, > cabal-install and the Hackage website. So if you're interested in > helping out with this core infrastructure project then: > > * subscribe to the cabal-devel mailing list: > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel > > * grab the source: > http://haskell.org/cabal/code.html > > * read the guide to the source code: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/SourceGuide > > * take a look at our list of bugs and feature requests: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/report/12 > especially the easy tickets: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/report/13 > > Duncan > (wearing his Cabal release manager hat) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
