Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

I would imagine they are well aware, what with all the changes that have gone in the past few weeks (for backpack support, package db overhauls, etc). However, I think crux of it (and the real question) isn't are they aware - but "When will there be a Cabal release that supports GHC HEAD, which will become 7.10"? This is a question I'm afraid I cannot answer - Johan does the typical Cabal releases, AFAIK. I've CC'd Duncan and Johan - do either of you have plans for this? Considering we hope the stable freeze will happen soon for 7.10, I imagine Cabal won't be very far behind in this regard, but I'm not sure if there's a plan set down anywhere as to when the next release will happen. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Sven Panne wrote:

2014-10-30 17:20 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp :

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[...] So this just means that Cabal isn't necessarily *future compatible* with future GHCs - they may change the package format, etc. But it is backwards compatible with existing ones.

OK, that's good to know. To be sure, I've just tested Cabal head + GHC 7.8.3, and it works. But as I've mentioned already, there seems to be *no* Cabal version which works with GHC head: https://travis-ci.org/haskell-opengl/StateVar/builds/39533448 Is this known to the Cabal people?

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