Thanks Mikhail
When you make the release, do advertise to us non-Cabal-experts about the new no-reinstall ability and how to use it. It's a game-changer.
Edward's blog post describes the issue
http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/09/is-no-reinstall-cabal-coming-to-ghc-8/
Having another blog post describing the solution would be excellent; with pointers from the Cabal home page.
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com
| [mailto:the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Glushenkov
| Sent: 16 December 2015 22:49
| To: Simon Peyton Jones
| Cc: Bardur Arantsson ; cabal-devel ; Gershom B
| Subject: Re: Release planning?
|
| Hi Simon,
|
| On 14 December 2015 at 14:03, Simon Peyton Jones
| wrote:
| > | Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with
| > | GHC 8.
| >
| > Can I ask what will be in it? Specifically, I would love to know
| what
| > you plan concerning the issues in this snip:
|
| I've just posted a status update to the cabal-dev mailing list:
|
| https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2farticl
| e.gmane.org%2fgmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel%2f10456&data=01%7c01
| %7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cbf7f44b8e6ba4c9cab0108d3066b1145
| %7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=lGhYz6fKEwLfalgWZXu7jZve
| BtnJVBqix8djS1SrIsc%3d
|
| Cabal/cabal-install 1.24 will include Duncan's no-reinstall work in
| some form (likely a "technical preview"). The Cabal library parts have
| just been merged. Gershom's minimal HP patch is already in Cabal
| master.
|
| It's possible that cabal-install 1.24 will not be released
| simultaneously with Cabal 1.24, so the HP 8 release may also be
| delayed a little bit.
