first some background: there is an issue with having Haskell on the next OS X “El Capitan”: [1] caused by security updates in the operating system.

The cause is too old `unix` package, the same issue as in [2]

Could someone verify that my understanding of the issue is correct, i.e. how Cabal-the-tool and Cabal-the-library interoperate.

For me it seems, that one of the easiest ways to fix the issue (for the users), is to have a new release in 7.8 branch, with updated `unix` dependency.

Or is it there too might hassle to be possible?

Related issues: [3] [4]

[1] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2653

[2] https://github.com/haskell/unix/pull/18

[3] https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/563

[4] https://github.com/ghcformacosx/ghc-dot-app/issues/39#issuecomment-122088535

Greetings,

Oleg

P.S. hopefully Windows 10 doesn’t pose similar surprises.