+1 for Carter's proposal - I had actually been planning to make the same suggestion, but just saw this thread now...
On 27 January 2014 09:39, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> wrote: > As for shipping with GHC itself: this is technically possible, but > slightly annoying to implement, and it also makes the build processes > for a release slightly more annoying (which is mostly my problem.) But > it is all doable. However, keep in mind I *do not* maintain the binary > distributions for everything, nor do Cabal devs have access to all > hardware - so all people making upstream releases for their platforms > (i.e. Solaris, PowerPC, ARM/Linux, etc) must also package cabal > themselves. But perhaps that's not a huge deal. > If ghc provided cabal-install I would be happy to ship that in Fedora instead of a separate package. To me cabal-install is probably the most important tool/package in HP (except for ghc itself of course): many people build/bootstrap latest ghc themselves it seems and so providing the latest cabal-install out of the box too would be a big win IMO, making it much easier to test ghc. (I wouldn't even mind if ghc shipped cabal-install's dependencies too.) Jens ps Of course it could be made a configure option whether to build cabal-install or now: the cabal-install source is already there. ;) :)
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