Should we aim for a new release in late January?

[Johan Tibell]

Hi Simon,

I don't think it's being actively worked on. Duncan and I chat about it
once in a while when we meet in person, but we don't have the cycles to do
it.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

>  I’m thrilled that there so much Cabal activity!
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> Is anyone working on, or interested in, the issue of compiling and
> installing the same package against different dependencies?  (There was a
> Google SoC project about this.)  Cabal sandboxes address the same issue,
> but at some user cost.  It should Just Work.
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> Simon
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> *From:* cabal-devel [mailto:cabal-devel-bounces at haskell.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Johan Tibell
> *Sent:* 27 November 2013 21:01
> *To:* cabal-devel at haskell.org
> *Subject:* Should we aim for a new release in late January?
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> Hi,
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> Cabal development is continuing at a furious pace. There are lots of great
> things in master that I'd like to get out to users, such as
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>  * relinking avoidance
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>  * build -j
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>  * ability to specify exact deps on the command line
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>  * haskell-suite compiler support
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>  * bug fixes
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> Here's an approximate list of commits (both Cabal and cabal-install) since
> the last release:
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>     https://github.com/haskell/cabal/compare/Cabal-v1.18.1.2...master
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> It's not entirely accurate as some patches were cherry-picked onto the
> 1.18 branch and thus have different commit IDs.
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> -- Johan
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