Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-05-30 Thread Jens Petersen
On 28 May 2014 14:05, Mark Lentczner wrote: > *If you make distributions*, please see the README and try building, at > very build the source tar ball, then run through your packaging process. > Even better would be if you can get you packaging process integrated into > the build. > Is there any

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Lentczner
The tarball has a list of packages in "build order". To discover this order, hptool uses cabal, run against the package database that is part of the ghc bindist for the release. I suppose the build could instead build a mock package database from the information about the release, and then use that