Re: Advance notice that I'd like to make Cabal depend on parsec

On 14 March 2013 22:53, Duncan Coutts wrote:

I've been doing regression testing against hackage and I'm satisfied that the new parser matches close enough. I've uncovered all kinds of horrors with .cabal files in the wild relying on quirks of the old parser. I've made adjustments for most of them but I will be breaking a half dozen old packages

When you say you've "made adjustments for" dodgy .cabal files in the wild, do you mean that you'll send those maintainers patches that make their cabal files less dodgy, or do you mean you've added hacks to your parser to reproduce the quirky behaviour? Conrad.