December 2017 - cabal-devel

Gearing up for the 2.2 release
by Mikhail Glushenkov 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hi *, It is time to start planning for the 2.2 release of Cabal/cabal-install. The original plan was to do it before the end of the year, however, given the current state of HEAD and the fact that GHC 8.4 is going to be released in February, I think it won't be a tragedy if we delay 2.2 a little. My current plan is to cut the 2.2 branch around January 15th, and make the release 2-3 weeks after that. So please hurry if there's something you absolutely want to get into 2.2. Current release blockers/stuff that I really want to see included: * Herbert's work on the forwards-compat scheme (https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4899) * Duncan's target package names stuff (https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4889) * Oleg's remaining parser PRs and SPDX work. * Some other currently unmerged PRs that are not marked blocked or are easy to get into mergeable shape. Cheers, Mikhail

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Cabal/cabal-install project ideas for Summer of Code 2018
by Mikhail Glushenkov 27 Dec '17

27 Dec '17

Hi *, As you are probably aware, it is again the time of the year to come up with project proposals for the next year's Summer of Code [1]. I've started a Wiki page for collecting Cabal/cabal-install HSoC 2018 project ideas [2] - please feel free to add new entries, edit existing ones and add/remove yourself to/from the list of potential mentors. Once the list of potential projects is more or less complete, I'll send a PR to the Summer of Haskell GitHub repo. Herbert tells me that the list of proposals should be finished before January 4th, so please hurry! Cheers, Mikhail [1] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2017-December/128365.html [2] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/wiki/%5BG,H%5DSoC-2018-Project-Ideas

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[ANN] Cabal 2.0.1.1/cabal-install 2.0.0.1 released
by Mikhail Glushenkov 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

Hi *, Cabal 2.0.1.1 and cabal-install 2.0.0.1 are now available from Hackage and the download page: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Cabal-2.0.1.1 http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-2.0.0.1 https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html Changes in this release: Cabal 2.0.1.1: * Don't pass `other-modules` to stub executable for detailed-0.9 (#4918). * Hpc: Use relative .mix search paths (#4917). cabal-install 2.0.0.1: * Support for GHC's numeric -g debug levels (#4673). * Demoted 'scope' field version check to a warning (#4714). * Fixed verbosity flags getting removed before being passed to 'printPlan' (#4724). * Added a '--store-dir' option that can be used to configure the location of the build global build store (#4623). * Turned `allow-{newer,older}` in `cabal.project` files into an accumulating field to match CLI flag semantics (#4679). * Improve success message when `cabal upload`ing documentation (#4777). * Documentation fixes. Cheers, Mikhail

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new cabal install binaries
by Gershom B 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

when we build the new platform we're going to have new cabal-install binaries for 2.0.1.0. It would be better if we provided the same ones as provided on the cabal website. Is there anyone lined up to build any of these, or would you like the platform team to provide you with the binaries we build as well? (i know i've done mac in the past, and will happily do so again, but typically there have been other sources for linux and windows binaries). Cheers, Gershom

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