On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Boespflug, Mathieu wrote:
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* Or a middle ground: make feature freeze a thing. Meaning that for a
> couple of months before a major GHC release, the major new Cabal isn't
> technically released yet, but like GHC itself within this period,
Hi,
I believe you are looking for the `Message` GADT in `GHCi.Message`
```
-- -
-- The RPC protocol between GHC and the interactive server
-- | A @Message a@ is a message that returns a value of type @a@.
-- These are
Dear GHC Developers,
I'm using the GHC API to load Haskell modules and extract their syntax
tree. I need to generate code where TH is used (by default I do
in-memory linking). I've run into some trouble with external
interpreter. When -fexternal-interpreter is NOT set, I use Linker.unload
to
>> * But actually if we look at their respective release notes, GHC 8.2.1 was
>> relased in July 2017, even though the Cabal website claims that
>> Cabal-2.0.0.2 was released in August 2017 (see
>> https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html). So it looks like GHC didn't
>> just not give enough
>> On 14 December 2017 at 00:19, Gershom B wrote:
>>>
>>> Mathieu:
>>>
>>> I think the points about better tooling for documenting the correct
>>> claims in the release process are well taken. Updating the release
>>> notes manually leaves way too much room for error.
>>>
>
"Boespflug, Mathieu" writes:
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Boespflug, Mathieu
> Date: 13 December 2017 at 23:03
> Subject: Re: Release policies
> To: Simon Peyton Jones
> Cc: ghc-devops-gr...@haskell.org
>
>
> [replying
"Boespflug, Mathieu" writes:
> Hi Gerhom,
>
> On 14 December 2017 at 00:19, Gershom B wrote:
>>
>> Mathieu:
>>
>> I think the points about better tooling for documenting the correct
>> claims in the release process are well taken. Updating the release
>> notes
Hi Gershom,
thanks for the extra input. So we've confirmed two facts:
* GHC (intended to) ship with only Cabal-2.0 support, but there was a
mistake in the release notes so this was unclear to downstream tooling
authors.
* Cabal-2.0 was released anywhere between slightly *after* and
*exactly at