An Easy Solution to PVP Bounds and Cabal Hell

2015-03-31 Thread Gershom B
Recently there has been some discussion about how we can fix the problem of “Cabal Hell”. Some people advocate restrictive upper bounds, to prevent packages from being broken by new updates. Some other people point out that too-restrictive bounds can lead to bad install plans, since some package

Mentors and thoughts on a GSoC proposal?

2015-03-31 Thread Gershom B
Hi all! We have the following GSoC proposal submitted to us: https://gist.github.com/fugyk/37510958b52589737274 Is there anyone on the cabal-devel list who would like to join as a mentor either to comment on this proposal, or feels up to mentoring this proposal (if we are to accept it, it will