Re: The bootstrap.sh script has to go

2015-01-01 Thread Johan Tibell
See https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2310 for a continuation of the sad bootstrap.sh saga. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel h...@gnu.org wrote: On 2014-12-30 at 21:23:19 +0100, Jake Wheat wrote: [...] Simplify the bootstrap.sh process: * always use a fixed

Re: The bootstrap.sh script has to go

2015-01-01 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2014-12-30 at 21:23:19 +0100, Jake Wheat wrote: [...] Simplify the bootstrap.sh process: * always use a fixed set of versions of packages for the dependencies For me, the primary use-case of `bootstrap.sh` is to be able to build a matching `cabal-install` executable for a given major GHC