who's maintaining language-c? tis borken on hackage with 7.8 till a new version is pushed

[Daniil Frumin]

But the users still need to have alex and happy libraries installed,
do not they?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> That's right, cabal "caches" alex/happy output in the tarball, so that
> users who build the package don't need to have alex/happy installed.
> Check yourself:
>
>   % curl http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-c-0.4.2/language-c-0.4.2.tar.gz | tar tzf - | grep dist
>
> So all maintainers of packages that use happy and/or alex have to
> reupload the package with a version sdist'ed on a system with the latest
> alex/happy to make it buildable with GHC 7.8.
>
> Roman
>
> * Daniil Frumin <difrumin at gmail.com> [2014-02-14 17:02:57+0400]
>> > turns out that when the maintainer person does sdist, happy / alex are run locally by cabal somehow
>>
>> Wow, how is that even possible? Where does it get alex/happy from? :O
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Carter Schonwald
>> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> > someone needs to help take over language C maintainer ship, because its
>> > going to be broken on 7.8 unless someone pushes a sdist'd with a new happy/
>> > alex to hackage (see https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/64 for an
>> > example issue)
>> >
>> > I know Anthony and Jason have at points patched language-c for their
>> > respective needs, so i'm cc'ing em :)
>> >
>> > -Carter
>> >
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>>
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>> Sincerely yours,
>> -- Daniil
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-- Daniil