10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
4:18 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:33:48PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
I more or less agree with all this, but it's too late to get any API changes into 6.4 now. We might have to start thinking about backwards compatibility.
There's a dissonance between the need to ship GHC and the unfinished state of Cabal. Most of the interface is worked out, but there are a few parts (not the parts currently used by GHC) that are experimental and/or need fixing, and these have had very little user feedback. I think this will be a beta release for Cabal, and its interface will need changing soon. What to do? Independent releases of Cabal updates?