New subject: planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage

6 Oct 2008

      On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:36 -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote:
...
I propose two solutions:
* Fix the dependency resolver
      * Add support in Cabal and Hackage for suggested version
        constraints
...
So I'll aim to work on both issues this week and report back on how
things are going.
Done!

Four days and 15 patches later I can construct install plans for 710
packages from hackage using the darcs cabal-install and last nights
ghc-6.10. (It would be more like 730 but I've not got gtk2hs built for
6.10, for ghc-6.8 it's 743 packages)

The next step is to actually build everything and compare. We'll do this
tomorrow and report results. There are three combinations we are
interested in:

      * baseline: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.4
      * new Cabal: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.6
      * new ghc:  ghc-6.10 and Cabal-1.6

So we'll try building all 700+ packages all three ways and compare the
build reports. We'll report anything interesting that might indicate new
ghc bugs. If all looks ok I'll also release Cabal-1.6.

Duncan

Re: planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage

Duncan Coutts

Jean-Philippe Bernardy

Duncan Coutts

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