On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 09:07 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Duncan, any thoughts? Do you prefer the branch, or would you be happy to
run GHC's validate before pushing to Cabal?
I think at the moment it's an advantage to get contributed changes in
and shared quicker. The balance may well change
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
An automated system would be cool, but it'd require some effort to set
up. In the meantime, we should probably go with SimonM's proposal and
just make GHC use a subset-branch of the main Cabal repo. Pulling
changes over into GHC's Cabal branch would be a manual
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:19:29PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I've just made GHC's Cabal into a branch.
FWIW I think this is a mistake. It'll make changing Cabal as part of
changes to the larger system harder, and increases the global amount of
effort necessary.
Also, I think Cabal patches
