
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: inherit;">I had a good success with completing a lot of parser work around Christmas, still on my todo list are:</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">- rewriting InstalledPackageInfo parser&printer using new (parsec) framework, which is (soft) prerequisite to</div><div style="direction: inherit;">- changing license field to use SPDX expressions</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">SPDX types are already merged, so there aren't much left, expect 2-3 PRs early next year. </div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">I'm heading off to no-keyboard place.</div><div style="direction: inherit;"><br></div><div style="direction: inherit;">- Oleg</div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 15 Dec 2017, at 18.40, Mikhail Glushenkov <<a href="mailto:mikhail.glushenkov@gmail.com">mikhail.glushenkov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi *,</span><br><span></span><br><span>It is time to start planning for the 2.2 release of</span><br><span>Cabal/cabal-install. The original plan was to do it before the end of</span><br><span>the year, however, given the current state of HEAD and the fact that</span><br><span>GHC 8.4 is going to be released in February, I think it won't be a</span><br><span>tragedy if we delay 2.2 a little. My current plan is to cut the 2.2</span><br><span>branch around January 15th, and make the release 2-3 weeks after that.</span><br><span>So please hurry if there's something you absolutely want to get into</span><br><span>2.2.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Current release blockers/stuff that I really want to see included:</span><br><span></span><br><span>* Herbert's work on the forwards-compat scheme</span><br><span>(<a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4899">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/4899</a>)</span><br><span>* Duncan's target package names stuff</span><br><span>(<a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4889">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/4889</a>)</span><br><span>* Oleg's remaining parser PRs and SPDX work.</span><br><span>* Some other currently unmerged PRs that are not marked blocked or are</span><br><span>easy to get into mergeable shape.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Cheers,</span><br><span>Mikhail</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>cabal-devel mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:cabal-devel@haskell.org">cabal-devel@haskell.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>