Greetings, I'm pleased to announce (really!) that cabal-dev is being deprecated in favor of cabal sandboxes. Cabal sandboxes have been around long enough that it's clear that cabal-dev has served its purpose and we are left in good hands with the newer Cabal features. As a result:
* No further cabal-dev releases will be pushed to Hackage. * For the sake of at least keeping the codebase buildable for those depending on it, we will accept pull requests adjusting version bounds in the cabal file on the cabal-dev repository at https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev * If you are still using cabal-dev, we strongly encourage you to migrate to sandboxes. 'cabal sandbox' is a fantastic alternative; migrating to it is just about as simple as rm -r cabal-dev && cabal sandbox init && cabal install * If you need assistance using 'cabal sandbox', a very good introduction (and cabal-dev migration guide!) can be found at http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2013-08-20-Cabal-sandbox.html Huge thanks are due to the Cabal contributors who worked to implement sandboxing support. We are all better off with having these features moved into Cabal proper. I would also like to thank Rogan Creswick (of Galois) and Josh Hoyt (of Twitter) who implemented cabal-dev, and of course we received many community contributions to improve the project; thanks to everyone! If you depend heavily on cabal-dev and are interested in maintaining it on your own, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Thanks! -- Jonathan Daugherty Software Engineer Galois, Inc. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
