On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:14:09PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
In Gentoo we made a decision to ship Cabal-1.1.3 with GHC 6.4.1. That is after installing GHC 6.4.1 we unregister Cabal-1.0 and install Cabal-1.1.3.
If all distributions and users are going to have to do this to get a usable system[1] then it seems obvious to me that ghc should already come this way. That it doesn't causes headaches for packagers IME. [1] "usable system" is a bit strong, but I hope you understand what I mean.
I appreciate that we do not want to rush the next major release because there are new features that need to be got right. Perhaps we should think again about which Cabal version to include in the next GHC minor version, or perhaps to advise users in the release notes for GHC 6.4.2 that it is highly recommended to upgrade to Cabal version x.y.
Incidentally, I would be happy if 6.4.2 was renamed 6.6 and newer cabal added; I'm not asking for what is currently called 6.6 necessarily. Or adding newer cabal to 6.4.2, against the policy, would suit me fine too. Thanks Ian