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From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Peter Gavin
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 9:16 PM
Cc: libraries@haskell.org; Claus Reinke
Subject: Re: patch applied (packages/regex-base): Make setup script compileagain after recent Cabal changes
On 9/1/07, Sven Panne
The main problem is that I've been hearing the sentence "Cabal is unstable at the moment, but with the next GHC release everything will be fixed and rock-solid, never changing again, ..." at least for a year now. In my experience, Cabal is *the* #1 reason for breaking build for aeons, and this is really getting frustrating.
It doesn't sound like you'd disagree with me, I just want to make a couple comments about this... Autoconf had similar problems during its infancy. Packages were constantly having problems. It takes time to work out the kinks, and bugs should be expected for the time being. And if you consider that Cabal is trying to be autoconf, automake, and libtool, and make, in a single tool, there will be that many more kinks to work out :) I completely agree. The level of instability is actually quite good given the location of Cabal in the software life cycle. Obviously, more stable is better, but IMO the developers have delivered a level of stability that, given the context, is above reasonable expectations Seth Kurtzberg Software Engineer Specializing in Security, Reliability, and the Hardware/Software Interface Pete _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries