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Call for 1.22 binaries
by Johan Tibell 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hi, As per usual I need help building binaries (to put on haskell.org) for the release. In particular I need binaries for Windows and Linux. Please include the architecture in the binary name and any other restrictions for how it can be used. -- Johan

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ANN: Cabal 1.22 and cabal-install 1.22
by Johan Tibell 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

On behalf of the cabal developers, I'm happy to announce the Cabal 1.22 release! To install: cabal update && cabal install Cabal-1.22.0.0 cabal-install-1.22.0.0 Please report bugs at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues. Pre-built binaries should be available with a week or so. Non-exhaustive list of changes: * Support GHC 7.10. * Experimental DWARF debug info output on GHC 7.10 (--enable-debug-info). * Preliminary support for relocatable packages. * Cabal can now be used inside a cabal exec environment. * Fix solver bug where the user's manual flag choice was ignored. * Add GHCJS support. * Improved command line documentation. * Build C sources with -fPIC when GHC is using dynamic libraries. * Preliminary support for package keys (a step on the way to NixOS-like packages). * Add a 'user-config' command to help users manage ~/.cabal/config. * HPC support improved. Here are all the contributors to this release, ordered by number of commits: 181 Mikhail Glushenkov 48 Johan Tibell 35 Edward Z. Yang 34 Christiaan Baaij 32 Thomas Tuegel 24 Ben Armston 19 Ian D. Bollinger 17 Lennart Spitzner 12 Luite Stegeman 11 Herbert Valerio Riedel 10 Duncan Coutts 9 Erik de Castro Lopo 8 Andres Loeh 5 Chris Wong 5 Iain Nicol 5 Heather 5 Jake Wheat 4 Daniel Trstenjak 4 Tuncer Ayaz 4 Neil Vice 4 Rudy Matela 2 David Feuer 2 Bertram Felgenhauer 2 Fujimura Daisuke 2 Iustin Pop 2 John Chee 2 Keshav Kini 2 Maxwell Swadling 2 Michael Snoyman 2 Owen Stephens 2 Sergey Vinokurov 2 Thomas Miedema 2 Vincent Hanquez 2 jake 1 Brent Yorgey 1 Maximilian Tagher 1 Anton Dessiatov 1 phischu 1 Bob Ippolito 1 Miëtek Bak 1 Bardur Arantsson 1 Nikita Karetnikov 1 tchakkazulu 1 Peter Trško 1 Austin Seipp 1 Ryan Mulligan 1 RyanGlScott 1 Samuel Gélineau 1 Sergei Trofimovich 1 jpmoresmau 1 Simon Hengel 1 Thomas M. DuBuisson 1 Harry Garrood 1 Isamu Mogi 1 kosmikus 1 David Fox 1 Curtis Gagliardi 1 Antonio Nikishaev 1 Karel Gardas 1 Travis Cardwell 1 Chris Allen 1 Matthew William Cox

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Re: Cabal 1.22 RC ready to test
by Johan Tibell 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

I'm pretty sure we just need to update the submodule. On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to build https://github.com/ghc/packages-Cabal earlier today and > got the same error, but it went fine with the version at > https://github.com/haskell/cabal > > > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It might be as simple as bumping the Cabal submodule in GHC to match the >> upstream 1.22 branch. >> >> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Jake Wheat <jakewheatmail(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 3 January 2015 at 15:05, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The error (https://travis-ci.org/haskell/cabal/jobs/45758614) is quite >>>> perplexing: >>>> >>>> [62 of 77] Compiling Distribution.Client.Config ( >>>> Distribution/Client/Config.hs, >>>> dist/dist-sandbox-8940a882/build/cabal/cabal-tmp/Distribution/Client/Config.o >>>> ) >>>> Distribution/Client/Config.hs:56:12: >>>> Module >>>> ‘Distribution.Simple.Compiler’ >>>> does not export >>>> ‘DebugInfoLevel(..)’ >>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: >>>> cabal-install-1.22.0.0 failed during the building phase. The exception >>>> was: >>>> ExitFailure 1 >>>> >>>> Distribution.Simple.Compiler most definitely does export >>>> DebugInfoLevel, otherwise it wouldn't compile with the other GHC versions. >>>> >>>> Does GHC do something special with Cabal nowadays when it's no longer >>>> tied to GHC? >>>> >>>> Is it because the Cabal-1.22.0.0 bundled with ghc is now different to >>> the Cabal-1.22.0.0 in github? I get the same error compiling the master >>> branch cabal-install with ghc-7.10.0-20141222. >>> >>> I think one solution is to increase the version number of Cabal in >>> github (for 1.22 and master branches), and to make the latest cabal-install >>> depend on this (i.e. Cabal>=1.22.0.1) since cabal-install 1.22 in github no >>> longer works with the 'released' snapshot Cabal-1.22.0.0 in ghc. This fixes >>> the error for ghc-7.10.0-20141222. >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs(a)haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >

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Cabal 1.22 RC ready to test
by Johan Tibell 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

Hi all, I've now prepared release candidate for Cabal/cabal-install 1.22. Please test them and report bugs here and/or on the bug tracker ( https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues) To install: cabal install http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.22.0.0-rc.tar.gz http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.22.0.0-rc.tar.gz Cabal is now such a big project that's used in so many context (e.g. different OSes) that we need your help to help us test, to make sure that new releases work for you. -- Johan

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The bootstrap.sh script has to go
by Johan Tibell 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

Hi all, I've spent more time on the bootstrap.sh script than anything else, making it emulate cabal flag resolution for the network-uri split and make it deal with the fact that network-uri makes Haddock choke. this release. That feels like a somewhat wasteful activity and I'm tired of maintain a stinking pile of shell script. Unless someone is willing to rewrite it as a Haskell program (that could be run using runhaskell), I vote we dump it and instead encourage users to bootstrap using e.g. the Haskell Platform. -- Johan

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1.18 and 1.20 patch releases done
by Johan Tibell 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

I just pushed Cabal and cabal-install releases on both the 1.18 and 1.20 branches live.

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Upper bound on "time" in Cabal causes build failure
by Toby Goodwin 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

Hi cabal developers, Wasn't sure what best to do with this - please let me know if you'd rather I emailed it elsewhere, or opened an issue against the github project, or... I'm trying to build haskell-platform-2014.2 from source, with the latest cabal: cabal-install version 1.20.0.4 using version 1.20.0.3 of the Cabal library The build plan it constructs for the hptool sandbox includes Cabal-1.2.4! (That's not a typo.) The problem seems to be that it chooses time-1.5, and then discovers that all recent versions of Cabal have the constraint "time < 1.5", so digs up this fossil from the attic. So I think there are two problems here. The small and simple one is that we need a release of Cabal with "time < 1.6" - you appear to have this in the master branch already; can it go on the 1.20 branch? Do you want me to create an issue / pull request? The larger problem is that cabal should have found a better build plan. I'm naive about the internals of dependency resolution, but I would have expected it to prefer taking time back 1 release over taking Cabal back 18. It would also be nice if it could have deduced that Cabal-1.2.4 wasn't actually going to build with recent ghc versions. Thanks for your time, Toby.

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Getting Cabal 1.2[12] ready for GHC 7.10.1 RC1
by Herbert Valerio Riedel 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hello Cabal developers! To keep it short: GHC 7.10.1 RC1 is planned for a release shortly before Xmas, and it would be great if there was a Cabal 1.22.x RC to go along with that. Is it possible for you to get Cabal (the library) in such a state by mid-December (i.e. in 2 weeks from now)? Cheers, hvr

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Please test: release candidates for Cabal/cabal-install patch releases on the 1.18 and 1.20 branches
by Johan Tibell 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

I've uploaded release candidates for Cabal/cabal-install patch releases on the 1.18 and 1.20 branches: https://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-1.18.1.5/Cabal-1.18.1.5.tar.gz https://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-install-1.18.0.6/cabal-install-… https://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-1.20.0.3/Cabal-1.20.0.3.tar.gz https://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-install-1.20.0.4/cabal-install-… Please test, especially if one of your fixes are in this release. You can install both both lib and exe using: cabal install <Cabal URL> <cabal-install URL> Changelogs: Cabal-1.18.1.5: e4660ff17f923e999080e21a20062d0df8d24bb6 The download dir on haskell.org moved fb3db6313b43632fdc9d598140b3eb5a681eb90b Bump Cabal version number to 1.18.1.5 12a698b6db8a2ca55367c54611a269048f4cef7b Build C sources with -fPIC when GHC is using dynamic libraries. cabal-install-1.18.0.6: 79ccaa85bba7957344fb1dca06d84220eff9b73c Bump cabal-install version number to 1.18.0.6 97dc39636bd547782647cb792ceca6c60a7e5ab1 Merge branch '1.18' of https://github.com/snoyberg/cabal into 1.18 4fbb20f52c842a7c7c173555ff7f0c8b5b67dfa1 Support for network-2.6 6f74da062e6d1bdc6db51acd55d0e2676fa56bf2 SavedConfig Monoid instance: make list fields work like Flags. 7380144203a233f81ff67052fc3256cf47b9b71f cabal update: use sandbox config file #1884 Cabal-1.20.0.3 7d7f560cc84dfe643d916efbab7c382b1df5a9e2 Bump cabal-install version number to 1.20.0.4 813ce2fc23da81b7bf07418a28258a962c44713e Bump Cabal version number to 1.20.0.3 cee305209129480f28190ee7026076962ba9ca97 The download dir on haskell.org moved b172747adec9ec8d57d8215e9d1cabb448aa6036 Build C sources with -fPIC when GHC is using dynamic libraries. 93aba465d35d03b29b1d9bd3a456815272a38a41 Revert 97c6a72984931f4ccf628736024d3459a033af6c. 343257e96fab526da27d143b653433f45c6c1401 s/2.15/2.14.4/ cabal-install-1.20.0.4 7d7f560cc84dfe643d916efbab7c382b1df5a9e2 Bump cabal-install version number to 1.20.0.4 caf257cd96e766b293943bbac07d766ec2f552dd Self-constraint not included in frozen constraints b19175519de6fc40683527c1104ce2a513a03612 Merge branch '1.20' of https://github.com/snoyberg/cabal into 1.20 1c0d8aafbe42921baa56fc36383f34763f69d327 Revert "Remove redundant network constraint" 58517f76cb2ccb33c007da596ede265f1192d3b8 Remove redundant network constraint a747778c25bd339fed9c9a7c77eb3adbf0f162e0 Support for network-2.6 5fcf3d994e5c5a0f101ac04e092a8beedadcdc8d SavedConfig Monoid instance: make list fields work like Flags. 13f9051d34463037569becf6d3f736a8d8a4570e cabal update: use sandbox config file #1884 93aba465d35d03b29b1d9bd3a456815272a38a41 Revert 97c6a72984931f4ccf628736024d3459a033af6c. aa0a6979f3223387aae830cf1d21b2c21978d767 Read installed package info file as UTF-8

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Heads-up: planning to create 1.22 RC on Thursday
by Johan Tibell 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

I plan to create the 1.22 RC on Thursday so it can go in the GHC 7.10 RC. That means that most pull requests (especially non-trivial ones) should be merged by then.

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