Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
An automated system would be cool, but it'd require some effort to set up. In the meantime, we should probably go with SimonM's proposal and just make GHC use a subset-branch of the main Cabal repo. Pulling changes over into GHC's Cabal branch would be a manual process, which would involve running validate. Especially, if, as you wrote, you guys are currently looking at breaking changes, that would be fairly urgent. I'd rather not have another round of the GHC build breaking every week.
I've just made GHC's Cabal into a branch. The main Cabal repo is http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal and GHC's branch is http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal (the latter used to be a symbolic link to the former, now they're separate repos). Can Cabal developers check that they're using the main Cabal repo when pushing, please? Cheers, Simon