Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-30 Thread Sven Panne
2014-10-29 23:55 GMT+01:00 Herbert Valerio Riedel hvrie...@gmail.com: Fyi, there's a `cabal-install-head` package now[1] (may take a few minutes till its properly published in the PPA though); please test it and lemme know if it works as expected... [1]:

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-30 Thread Austin Seipp
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-23 15:01 GMT+02:00 Alan Kim Zimmerman alan.z...@gmail.com: cabal has changed for HEAD, you need to install 1.21.1.0 Hmmm, so we *force* people to update? o_O Perhaps I've missed an announcement, and I really have

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-30 Thread Sven Panne
2014-10-30 17:20 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: [...] So this just means that Cabal isn't necessarily *future compatible* with future GHCs - they may change the package format, etc. But it is backwards compatible with existing ones. OK, that's good to know. To be sure, I've just

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-30 Thread Austin Seipp
I would imagine they are well aware, what with all the changes that have gone in the past few weeks (for backpack support, package db overhauls, etc). However, I think crux of it (and the real question) isn't are they aware - but When will there be a Cabal release that supports GHC HEAD, which

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-30 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 30 October 2014 21:30, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-30 17:20 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: [...] So this just means that Cabal isn't necessarily *future compatible* with future GHCs - they may change the package format, etc. But it is backwards

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-23 Thread Sven Panne
2014-10-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com: Does anybody have a clue what's going wrong at the sdist step here? https://travis-ci.org/haskell-opengl/OpenGLRaw/jobs/38707011#L104 This only happens with a GHC from head, a build with GHC 7.8.3 is fine:

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-23 Thread Alan Kim Zimmerman
cabal has changed for HEAD, you need to install 1.21.1.0 On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com: Does anybody have a clue what's going wrong at the sdist step here?

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

2014-10-23 Thread Sven Panne
2014-10-23 15:01 GMT+02:00 Alan Kim Zimmerman alan.z...@gmail.com: cabal has changed for HEAD, you need to install 1.21.1.0 Hmmm, so we *force* people to update? o_O Perhaps I've missed an announcement, and I really have a hard time deducing this from the output on Travis CI. Is 1.21.1.0