On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:55 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
SECOND, we have produced Release Candidate 1 for GHC 6.12.1, and are about to produce RC2. However, before releasing 6.12 we'd like to compile all of Hackage, in case doing so reveals bugs in GHC's APIs (which are not supposed to change). But we can't do that until an update to cabal-install is ready. (We don't expect this dependency to happen all the time, but it does hold for 6.12.)
Duncan has been working on the cabal-install update, and expects to release by end November. So the timetable looks like this:
- Very soon: GHC 6.12.1 release candidate 2 - End Nov: cabal-install release - ...test GHC against Hackage...
An update on this: People can now grab the current darcs version of cabal-install and build and test it with ghc-6.12 (or indeed earlier ghc versions). Duncan