## Current affairs - Andrea: The issue with GHC 9.6, -fplugin and cabal register seems to be affecting many users, including stack and rules_haskell: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/ghcs-fplugin-any-changes-between-9-4-7-and-9... . We had an issue (https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/9375) opened last month and we merged a fix (https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9384) about three weeks ago. I am not expecting the release gods to get their hands dirty again but could we make a minor release for this patch? - Hécate: No problem for a 3.10.3.0 patch release, we need to ship https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9459 anyway - Hécate: No plan for patch releases for 3.8 and 3.6. - Andrea: [#9374](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9374) (Guard PackageInfo behind cabal-version: 3.10) we need to make a decision about what to do. Further discussion is at https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/9331. - Mikołaj has a plan: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/9331#issuecomment-1792219043 - Javier: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9462 (`default-constraints` proposal): I'd like to have a first discussion on whether the proposal is considered beneficial or not, and discuss alternatives to it. - `package-constraints` seems to be a more fitting name - An RFC for the design for the PR will be opened ## Review needed - Andrea: I had https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9123 opened for a while, blocked on a CI failure on Windows. Can we get someone with Windows experience to look at the failure ( https://github.com/haskell/cabal/actions/runs/6480591351/job/17596418675#ste... )? - No clear resolution for this problem at this time - Javier can't in fact run the test-suite in Windows on this branch. - Andrea: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9320 on standalone foreign libs. I am happy to extend the documentation but we need to know what we want to say. - Yvan would be happy to help on that :) - Yvan: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9159, it's mainly code refactoring, Andrea pair-programmed with me on this one. - Yvan: Stuck with a bug on https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9160, it's a low-hanging fruit to improve `cabal-install` output. - Hécate: Looks like it's a matter of changing hashes? https://github.com/haskell/cabal/actions/runs/6783137983/job/18436767543?pr=... - Yvan: Not only https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9160#issuecomment-1798232254 - Rodrigo: Almost done with https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9464: reworks a bit --enable-coverage and "re-fixes" #5213, #4798 and will fix #6440. - Rodrigo: Did this fix on a whim https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/9448. I think this happens once in a while and I've put forward a pragmatic fix. I don't understand what other situation can trigger this error. ## Food for thoughts - Andrea: I have played a bit with the lexer to add tokens for whitespace and comments (maybe a humble step towards exact-printing but I won't make such a claim). While doing that I noticed the token `TokFieldLine` never gets emitted by the lexer (I tested this on the whole Hackage). I am not very well versed in this, does anybody have a clue? - Hécate: It might actually be impossible for the Lexer to emit this token, due to overlap with other things.