September 2007 - cabal-devel

patch applied (cabal): Don't create empty data dirs. Fixes bug #153.
by Duncan Coutts 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Wed Sep 12 04:38:03 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Don't create empty data dirs. Fixes bug #153. Patch contributed by Sven Panne. M ./Distribution/Simple/Install.hs -5 +2

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patch applied (cabal): Use confgurations to help build Cabal for ghc-6.2.x
by Duncan Coutts 12 Sep '07

12 Sep '07

Wed Sep 12 04:29:34 PDT 2007 Duncan Coutts <duncan(a)haskell.org> * Use confgurations to help build Cabal for ghc-6.2.x Replacing a long-standing comment telling people how to do it manually. M ./Cabal.cabal -1 +3

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Re: ANNOUNCE: Cabal 1.2.0 released
by Thomas Schilling 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 21:00 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > Thursday, September 6, 2007, 8:35:19 PM, you wrote: > > We are pleased to announce that Cabal version 1.2.0 is now available. > > i suggest you to forward announce into main haskell maillist too > > major release of such important library is definitely news interesting > for many haskellers Well, I think I should have been a little clearer about the status of this release. Let me clarify. Earlier releases were preceded by release candidates before the .0 release. However, we changed it this time so that .0 basically is the release candidate and .1 will then be the first stable release. Therefore, we decided to post only to the developer mailing lists, so that the first release to the wider public (1.2.1) will, hopefully, have most issues resolved. / Thomas

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Re: [Hackage] #132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions")
by Hackage 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

#132: Add "tools" field (like "extensions") --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: ijones Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.4.2 | Platform: Linux --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * resolution: => fixed * status: new => closed -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/132> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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Re: [Hackage] #27: Document configurations syntax
by Hackage 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

#27: Document configurations syntax ----------------------------------------------------+----------------------- Reporter: Simon Marlow <simonmar(a)microsoft.com> | Owner: nominolo Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion: 6.2.1 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------------------------------+----------------------- Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: very hard => very easy (<1 hour) * milestone: Cabal-1.4 => Cabal-1.2 * summary: Configurations => Document configurations syntax Comment: Configurations are now implemented, the latest syntax needs to be documented in the user guide. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/27> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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Re: [Hackage] #141: Cabal throws an ugly "irrefutable pattern match failed" error when confronted to an empty .cabal descriptor
by Hackage 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

#141: Cabal throws an ugly "irrefutable pattern match failed" error when confronted to an empty .cabal descriptor ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: mnislaih | Owner: mnislaih Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: HEAD Severity: minor | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Ghcversion: 6.6 Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Platform: Mac OS ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * resolution: => fixed * status: new => closed Comment: We now get {{{ setup: Warning: No library or executable specified Configuring ... setup: Warning: No executables and no library found. Nothing to do. setup: Warning: No exposed modules or executables in this package. setup: Warning: No license-file field. setup: Error: Missing field: name setup: Error: Missing field: version }}} I suppose it could be better yet. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/141> Hackage <http://example.com/> My example project

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patch applied (cabal-branches/cabal-1.2): spell nhc98-options correctly
by Duncan Coutts 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Thu Sep 6 08:04:11 PDT 2007 Malcolm.Wallace(a)cs.york.ac.uk * spell nhc98-options correctly M ./Cabal.cabal -1 +1

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patch applied (cabal): Update D.S.GHC/Makefile.hs
by Clemens Fruhwirth 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Thu Sep 6 14:35:07 PDT 2007 Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens(a)endorphin.org> * Update D.S.GHC/Makefile.hs M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.hs -1 +1

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patch applied (cabal): Add shared library building to GHC module (also via Makefile)
by Clemens Fruhwirth 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Thu Sep 6 14:31:32 PDT 2007 Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens(a)endorphin.org> * Add shared library building to GHC module (also via Makefile) M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -25 +67 M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC/Makefile.in -3 +16 M ./Distribution/Simple/Install.hs -3 +1

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ANNOUNCE: Cabal 1.2.0 released
by Thomas Schilling 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

The Haskell Cabal The Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries. <http://www.haskell.org/cabal> We are pleased to announce that Cabal version 1.2.0 is now available. Changes: The major new feature in this release is support for Cabal configurations. This allows package authors to more easily adopt their package descriptions to different system parameters such as operating system, architecture, or compiler. In addition, some optional features may be enabled or disabled explicitly by the package user. Many other new features and tool support has been added, among others: - Support for hscolour (haddock links to coloured source code). - Support for pkg-config (allows specifying dependencies on many C libraries). - Specification of build-tool dependencies. - Better default installation paths on Windows. - Seperate "includes" and "install-includes" fields - Install paths can be specified relative to each other. - Many more new small features, command line flags and bugfixes. For a more exhaustive list, see http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/rc/changelog Please note that this is a .0 release, so we would appreciate any feedback or bug reports. Note also, that the hooks API changed, so it's quite likely that many non-trivial Setup.[l]hs files will break. We hope, however, that much of those files' functionality can now be expressed using configurations. This version (or a bug fix update) will be included in GHC version 6.8.1. For other Haskell implementations or older versions of GHC you can install it separately: Download: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html http://haskell.org/cabal/release/rc/cabal-1.2.0.tar.gz Documentation: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/rc/doc/users-guide/ http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/rc/doc/API/Cabal See both the README file and the changelog for interface changes: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/rc/changelog Bugs: Report bugs using our bug tracker: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/newticket or at the libraries(a)haskell.org (please CC to cabal-devel(a)haskell.org) mailing list (note that this is subscriber only).

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