February 2016 - cabal-devel

Cabal 1.24 and 1.26 status update
by Mikhail Glushenkov 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hi *, A short update on the current status of the 1.24 branch and plans for the future. Given that the GHC 8 final release is fast approaching, I've decided to create the 1.24 branch before the GHC 8 RC3 has been released. This means that some of the Cabal features initially planned for 1.24 (see [1]) will unfortunately have to be postponed until 1.26. These features are: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2540 - platform libraries https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2522 - globstar globbing However, we've decided to do another (small) feature release of cabal-install off the 1.24 branch a month or two after the release of cabal-install 1.24.0.0. Therefore the following patches, which do not touch Cabal library code, will make it into the 1.24.1.0 release of cabal-install: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2916 - space leak in solver https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2914 - space leak in solver https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2774 - gen-bounds command https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2882 - status command Also, cabal-install 1.24.1.0 will include an alpha version of Duncan's nix-local-build work, which is currently in the process of being merged. This is intended as a technical preview. Looking further forward, the 1.26 release is currently planned for August 2016. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel/10478

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Cabal 1.24 branch created
by Mikhail Glushenkov 22 Feb '16

22 Feb '16

Hi *, I've just created the 1.24 branch. I've also uploaded release candidates of Cabal and cabal-install 1.24 to Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-1.24.0.0/candidate/Cabal-1.24.0.0.… http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-1.24.0.0/candidate/cabal-i… Unless major bugs will be discovered in these release candidates, this is what will become the final 1.24 release. Please test and report any problems you find!

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Docs
by Noon Silk 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Yeah. I'm a bit mystified about this issue myself. I've created a GitHub issue: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/478 inspired by this and the other recent threads. Hopefully some of the maintainers of the hackage library will respond and we can get a plan together and make some progress here. -- Noon On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Geraldus <heraldhoi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi friends! > > Apologize, a lot of Hackage docs issues discussed here already, but I'll > decided to bring this question one more time. > > I'm facing missing docs during last few weeks, both Hoogle and Hayoo links > to Hackage and usual response I see is "Not found". Stackage helps a lot, > but most of the time I have to manually search same term on Stackage again. > > Can we improve this sad situation finally? > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe(a)haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Noon Silk, ن https://silky.github.io/ "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."

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