Re: Procedure for updating GHC submodule pointer to Cabal

2014-07-04 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hi, On 2014-07-03 at 15:57:00 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: > With my Cabal maintainer hat on there are two important considerations: > > * Make sure your patches make it upstream. > * Make sure that we make a Cabal release with your changes in it before > the next GHC release you're targeting your

Re: Procedure for updating GHC submodule pointer to Cabal

2014-07-03 Thread Johan Tibell
With my Cabal maintainer hat on there are two important considerations: * Make sure your patches make it upstream. * Make sure that we make a Cabal release with your changes in it before the next GHC release you're targeting your feature for. In the past we had problems with GHC HQ releasing pa

Procedure for updating GHC submodule pointer to Cabal

2014-07-03 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello all, I am working on module reexports (https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8407) and this functionality requires concurrent changes to GHC and Cabal. However, GHC is currently tracking 1.20, but Cabal HEAD has marched on. My question is, if I am to do this development on HEAD, what is t