#8244: Removing the Cabal dependency -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: nh2 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): So I've started working on this. The design I'm following will mean that ghc the library does not depend on Cabal, but ghc-pkg will continue to depend on Cabal and so Cabal will still be built and shipped with ghc as it is now. (It also doesn't involve any unnatural splits in the Cabal lib). If I can get away with it, I'll also remove the support for single-file style package dbs, and just use the (now standard) `package.conf.d` style dbs. Any objections? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8244#comment:16 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler