Re: Is Cabal a core library?

It should still probably be at least mentioned during the next meeting, but I'm in favor. On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:58 AM Artem Pelenitsyn wrote:

Sounds like a good idea to me. We could add it to the agenda of the next meeting, perhaps. Or, if there's a unanimous support, maybe we don't have to do that (and save us some time :-))

-- Best, Artem

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 4:59 AM Mikolaj Konarski wrote:

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Andrew, thank you for your kind offer.

Let me forward this to other Cabal developers.

Best regards, Mikolaj

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andrew Lelechenko Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 1:50 AM Subject: Is Cabal a core library? To: Mikolaj Konarski , Hécate < hecate@glitchbra.in>

Hi Mikolaj and Hecate,

There is a push to consolidate notions of boot (= needed to build GHC) and core (= under CLC aegis) libraries, so that critical parts of Haskell ecosystem are more resilient. How do you feel about designating `Cabal` and `Cabal-syntax` as core packages?

While at the moment Cabal has a very healthy team (thanks a ton for your work!), there were moments in Cabal history when things were drastically different. So having an additional safety net, such that CLC is able to provide additional / emergency maintenance, could be helpful in future.

Designating a library as a core package does not impose much change on day-to-day operations. CLC does not interfere with daily development of Core Libraries as long as appointed maintainers keep them in an appropriate shape and support healthy communication with contributors. You can find the full policy at

https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee?tab=readme-ov-file#core-...

(Feel free to forward to other Cabal developers)

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