Johan Tibell wrote:
I don't know if shipping both Cabal 1.18 and 1.20 in the HP will lead to problems. If so, I can backport the cabal-install changes to 1.18.
Mark Lentczner wrote:
all's well... Johan back ported the changes
So it's moot for this release. But in principle, what would have been the problem with having the platform installers ship with the 1.20 executable, or build the 1.20 executable in a sandbox for installers that build it, and then still ship with Cabal-1.18. in the libraries? On a related note: are we sure that we want cabal-install to print the upgrade message whenever a newer version is available on hackage? If we believe it might be a problem to have a version of Cabal installed that is inconsistent with the one bundled with GHC, then why are we telling people to install it? Thanks, Yitz