Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help test XDG support in cabal-install

Is there a migration path for converting to the new layout? The above makes clear what happens to `~/.cabal/config` but only hints about what I should do with other paths (e.g. `~/.cabal/store`). Or is the preferred migration path to move the config file and nuke (or move out of the way, as a backup) everything else? On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 3:56 PM Troels Henriksen wrote:

Brandon Allbery writes:

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On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 2:49 PM Troels Henriksen wrote:

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Still, because of the delicacy of a change like this, we’d like some external confirmation that cabal is still usable. This requires human trials. Therefore, if you are a human who uses cabal, please try installing the latest development version and see if it still works for you. If you want to try out the new XDG future, you can delete your ~/.cabal directory (possibly copying ~/.cabal/config to ~/.config/cabal/config first). I’ve been dogfooding this support for a over month, but I have no illusions about my usage covering the full feature space.

Is there a convenient way to install this without doing a `git clone`? In particular I'd like a convenient way to manage it via `ghcup` as was provided for the 3.8.1.0 RC.

As a side effect, Cabal's CI suite produces artifacts that contain (dynamically linked) 'cabal' executables. The following URL retrieves a zipfile that contains a tarball that contains 'cabal':

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/suites/8566596132/artifacts/383133509

It may or may not work for ghcup. I assume that once actual release candidates are made, more easily-installable binaries will also be provided, as with previous releases. But that's probably six months or more away.

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