Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-09-27 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Hi Reid, Ah yes, this is fallout from commit da7289882610ccae3f16c74be7440d19c29ecd20 Author: Duncan Coutts Date: Wed Aug 27 16:33:20 2014 +0100 Change testsuite to not use old-style file package databases Now uses ghc-pkg init. The file-style databases ar

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-09-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
Currently released cabal-install on hackage doesn't know how to do linkery for ghc head afaik, but I could be wrong On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Reid Barton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> SPJ pointed out to me today that if you try to run

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-13 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 13 August 2014 16:22, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > End of the year, I think. Correction: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.1 says "February 2015". ___ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mai

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-13 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 13 August 2014 16:12, Johan Tibell wrote: > I'm still aiming for another > major release before 7.10? When's 7.10 scheduled before? End of the year, I think. ___ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/lis

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-13 Thread Johan Tibell
Edward made some changes so that GHC 7.10 is backwards compatible with older cabals (older cabals just can't use the new goodies, that's all), which means that we won't need an earlier release. I'm still aiming for another major release before 7.10? When's 7.10 scheduled before? On Fri, Aug 8, 20

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-08 Thread Edward Z . Yang
They would be: 2b50d0a Fix regression for V09 test library handling. d3a696a Disable reinstalls with distinct package keys for now. 1d33c8f Add $pkgkey template variable, and use it for install paths. 41610a0 Implement package keys, distinguishing packages built with different dep

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-08 Thread Johan Tibell
I'm not again putting out another release, but I'd prefer to make it on top of 1.20 if possible. Making a 1.22 release takes much more work (RC time, etc). Which are the patches in question. Can they easily be cherry-picked onto the 1.20 branch? Are there any risk of breakages? On Fri, Aug 8, 20

HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-08-08 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hey all, SPJ pointed out to me today that if you try to run: cabal install --with-ghc=/path/to/inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 with the latest GHC HEAD, this probably will not actually work, because your system installed version of Cabal is probably too old to deal with the new package key stuff in H