Re: Extensions and Cabal

On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:29:56PM -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote:

On 3/24/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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The only thing I can think of (besides "nice idea") is that you'd better either a) make sure that Cabal always knows about all the extensions supported by the compiler or b) provide a workaround for when Cabal does not know about a given extension.

We already have this, it's called darcs send.

That said, cabal is very sorely lacking hacker's documentation. I for one can't understand the code. (yet (but still I learned lambdabot faster))

So, how do you compel the people who do compiler releases to ensure that it is *done*?

Also, what about the part where you have to wait for another Cabal release?

I was going to write a nice rebuttal here, but then I remembered I hadn't read the original message well enough. Having done so, I agree with Ian completely. (*Great* idea, I had the same one for the hv system.) Stefan