On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 12:17 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
So in effect, we do still have a dependency on cabal-install. As a result, the GHC 6.12 release is stalled, awaiting a working cabal-install. We could go ahead and release, but we want people to test the release, and they are unlikely to do so without cabal-install. So there doesn't seem much point. So:
Could you [I'm afraid this means you, Duncan] give us a *date* for the new cabal-install, so that we can in turn tell our users what to expect?
I can provide an experimental patch for people to try out. Attached is cabal-1.8-conversion.dpatch. It's only very lightly tested. To use it people will need the cabal-install HEAD branch, and to use darcs apply. Then a release date depends on how well this patch works. Duncan