On 10 February 2005 18:39, Isaac Jones wrote:
I'm still a bit worried; I suspect the Distribution.Make stuff is out of date, and if we're under a freeze already then that should probably go away. setup sdist has bitrotted too, and I don't have a hugs test suite yet.
The change I made to add preprocessors to UserHooks is pretty important, IMO.
I can definitely release cabal separately; I have maintained an independent tree, as you know, but there are obviously problems with this. Are we under a code freeze right now? Can we get another weekend to hack on it?
The GHC 6.4 release is way overdue. We originally planned to push it out in Aug last year, and it's now been over a year since the last major release of GHC! I suppose given that, another couple of weeks won't hurt :-) What is important, as I see it, is that the version of Cabal we ship with GHC - can support building & registering 3rd party packages for some time to come - will be compatible with future enhancements to Cabal. That is, packages which work with this version of Cabal will also work with future versions (maybe until the next *major* release of Cabal, at least). So the second point means that the syntax we use for .cabal files, and the Distribution.* API, have to be supported for some time to come. We should be clear about which parts of the Distribution.* API are actually supposed to be stable, BTW. Cheers, Simon