RE: Release planning?

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Thanks Mikhail

When you make the release, do advertise to us non-Cabal-experts about the new 
no-reinstall ability and how to use it.  It's a game-changer.

Edward's blog post describes the issue
http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/09/is-no-reinstall-cabal-coming-to-ghc-8/
Having another blog post describing the solution would be excellent; with 
pointers from the Cabal home page.

Simon

|  -Original Message-
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|  [mailto:the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Glushenkov
|  Sent: 16 December 2015 22:49
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>
|  Cc: Bardur Arantsson <s...@scientician.net>; cabal-devel ; Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com>
|  Subject: Re: Release planning?
|  
|  Hi Simon,
|  
|  On 14 December 2015 at 14:03, Simon Peyton Jones
|  <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote:
|  > |  Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with
|  > | GHC  8.
|  >
|  > Can I ask what will be in it?  Specifically, I would love to know
|  what
|  > you plan concerning the issues in this snip:
|  
|  I've just posted a status update to the cabal-dev mailing list:
|  
|  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2farticl
|  e.gmane.org%2fgmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel%2f10456=01%7c01
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|  BtnJVBqix8djS1SrIsc%3d
|  
|  Cabal/cabal-install 1.24 will include Duncan's no-reinstall work in
|  some form (likely a "technical preview"). The Cabal library parts have
|  just been merged. Gershom's minimal HP patch is already in Cabal
|  master.
|  
|  It's possible that cabal-install 1.24 will not be released
|  simultaneously with Cabal 1.24, so the HP 8 release may also be
|  delayed a little bit.
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Re: Release planning?

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi Simon,

On 14 December 2015 at 14:03, Simon Peyton Jones  wrote:
> |  Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with GHC
> |  8.
>
> Can I ask what will be in it?  Specifically, I would love to know
> what you plan concerning the issues in this snip:

I've just posted a status update to the cabal-dev mailing list:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel/10456

Cabal/cabal-install 1.24 will include Duncan's no-reinstall work in
some form (likely a "technical preview"). The Cabal library parts have
just been merged. Gershom's minimal HP patch is already in Cabal
master.

It's possible that cabal-install 1.24 will not be released
simultaneously with Cabal 1.24, so the HP 8 release may also be
delayed a little bit.
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Re: Release planning?

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi,

On 13 December 2015 at 14:05, Bardur Arantsson  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Where does release planning happen? I'd like to start on merging some
> solver-related PRs, but if there's an imminent release, that might not
> be such a good idea...

Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with GHC 8.
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Re: Release planning?

[Echo Nolan]

Is it the general rule that Cabal releases are synced with GHC releases, or
can Cabal releases be more frequent?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:26 AM Mikhail Glushenkov <
mikhail.glushen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 13 December 2015 at 14:05, Bardur Arantsson 
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Where does release planning happen? I'd like to start on merging some
> > solver-related PRs, but if there's an imminent release, that might not
> > be such a good idea...
>
> Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with GHC 8.
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Re: Release planning?

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 12/13/2015 08:26 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13 December 2015 at 14:05, Bardur Arantsson  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Where does release planning happen? I'd like to start on merging some
>> solver-related PRs, but if there's an imminent release, that might not
>> be such a good idea...
> 
> Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with GHC 8.
> 

I'd gathered as much :).

When (or where, i.e. which commit) is the branch-off point? Does anybody
know? Would it make sense to do it now-ish, or do we need to wait for
GHC 8.0rc1 or something?

Regards,


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