Gearing up for a 1.18 release

[Johan Tibell]

Another reason we need this out soon is that we want Cabal 1.18 to
ship with the next GHC, which I believe will be released after ICFP.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> relatedly: has Luite's patches been added yet? (are those the cross
> compilation patches you're talking about?)
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-08-20 at 10:26:07 +0200, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> What's the status of this?
>> >
>> > 'cabal repl' seems to work fine with sandboxes.
>> > The backwards compat patch for #1214 is not yet done (I'm on it).
>> > Other than that, the documentation update is the only thing left to do.
>>
>> Fwiw, I've been using haskell-mode with "cabal repl" successfully
>> myself, and I've pushed preliminary "cabal repl" support to the public
>> Github repo recently[1]; I've also added a workaround to be able to use
>> ghci-ng w/ "cabal repl"[2]. So I really hope "cabal repl" gets released
>> as part of 1.18.0, as it's already working quite nicely and IMHO
>> represents a big improvement over cabal-dev in its current state.
>>
>>  [1]: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/issues/195
>>  [2]:
>> https://github.com/hvr/ghci-ng/commit/941fa170ba92c82b08d52672075cfa36184bc093
>>
>> cheers,
>>   hvr
>>
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