October 2015 - cabal-devel

ANN: cabal-install-1.22.6.0 has been released
by Ryan Thomas 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hi all, A new minor release of cabal-install has been released, this is to pick up a fix for @ezyang's fix for #2502. This is now available on hackage and the downloads page and the sha1sum is listed below. Cheers, ryan d474b0eef6944af1abef92419cea13cee50993f3 cabal-install-1.22.6.0.tar.gz

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pre-710 compatibility stuff
by lennart spitzner 24 Oct '15

24 Oct '15

hi, should we use #if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ < 710 or #if !MIN_VERSION_base(4,8,0) ? currently both are used in different places, and i have no idea if there is a difference/if it matters. if it does not, i suggest conventionizing one of the two. lennart

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Taking a step back
by Johan Tibell 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Friends, I'm taking a step back from day-to-day library work. There are two main reasons I use Haskell: on one hand I find writing Haskell educational and fun. On the other I hope to make it a viable alternative to existing mainstream languages. With recent changes to our core libraries, and the general direction these are moving in, I believe we're moving away from becoming a viable alternative to those mainstream languages. This has some practical implications for how I spend my Haskell hacking time. Much of what I do is maintaining and working on libraries that are needed for real world usage, but that aren't that interesting to work on. I've lost the motivation to work on these. I've decided to take a step back from the core maintenance work on cabal, network, containers, and a few others* starting now. I've already found replacement maintainers for these. I still plan to hack on random side projects, including GHC, and to continue coming to Haskell events and conference, just with a shorter bug backlog to worry about. :) -- Johan Tibell * For now I will still hack on unordered-containers and ekg, as there are some things I'd like to experiment with there.

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Cabal segfaults after update to GHC-7.10.2 from ports
by Eric McCorkle 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Hello, I just updated my Haskell installation in FreeBSD 11 to GHC 7.10 using the ports tree. I am now seeing segfaults from cabal whenever I try to install anything, or even update the package list. Curiously, port builds of Haskell packages seem to work just fine, which leads me to believe the problem is in one of the dependencies as opposed to cabal itself. Also, I can manually compile and run simple programs. I tried various settings (LLVM/no, profile on/off, dynamic on/off) to no avail. Has anyone else seen this? Any advice on how to go about diagnosing the problem?

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IRC logs for #hackage
by Danny Navarro 16 Oct '15

16 Oct '15

Since many interesting conversations related to cabal and hackage development happen in the #hackage channel, I wouldn't like to miss any of them. Keeping 1 day worth of logs would be fine with me. I was about to send a PR [1] to Chris' Done http://ircbrowse.net/, but I'd rather have explicit permission before doing so. I'm not sure who should I'm ask for though. [1]: https://github.com/jdnavarro/ircbrowse/commit/82657f77ea0d2158ae3fd92282d20… -- Danny Navarro | http://dannynavarro.net

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HEAD-UPS: IRC presence for Haskell Infrastructure Hackathon 11-11th Oct 2015
by Herbert Valerio Riedel 10 Oct '15

10 Oct '15

Hi, as you may know, https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/7316-haskell-infrastructure-hackathon-… is starting right now! Attendees will be directed to the #hackage/freenode channel for task coordination, support, and counseling... It'd be great if those of you with some experience with the Cabal & Hackage code-base could join the #hackage channel today or tomorrow, and provide assistance. Moreover, there's a Wiki page for collecting task ideas up at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/Hackathon2015 if you have additional ideas, feel free to edit that page (if you lack permissions to edit, talk to us on #hackage) Cheers, hvr

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