| current existing "search path-like" functionality where a chain of
| overlays may live over a repo. The proposal does not address that,
| because it is how things work already -- although arguably, the way in
| which this works may be insufficiently understood among existing cabal
| users?
Thanks for these comments Simon. It is good to have a sanity-check on
these proposals before they go before a broad audience. I'll try to
take them into account and submit this properly as a proposal
(including creating the associated discussion thread) in the next few
days. If anyone else has any
Gershom
Looks like a great idea.
Lots of questions though:
- I think more motivation would be helpful. E.g. "You are in change
of the GHC 8.6 release. Package authors don't want to upload a new
version of their packages until 8.6 is out, but you still want to
smoke-test 8.6 against
