What build environments should Cabal support?

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 00:33:28 CET 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk> wrote:
> Do we therefore have no interest in compilers other than GHC? Can we
> drop all instances of ifdef __HUGS__ from the code?
>
> I think doing so would require a reasonable amount of work, but would
> significantly lower the barrier to contributing to Cabal.

I think so. To my knowledge there's no one who's actively maintaining
and testing the Hugs support in Cabal. It's most likely broken.

-- Johan



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