1.20 release candidates

[Johan Tibell]

The above tarballs should work if you manually constrain the install to use
HTTP-4000.2.5 or higher:

  cabal install --constraint="HTTP >= 4000.2.5"
http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.20.0-rc.tar.gz
http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.20.0-rc.tar.gz



On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you run into this error:
>
> Network/HTTP/Auth.hs:192:49:
>     Couldn't match expected type `Maybe URI' with actual type `URI'
>     In the second argument of `fromMaybe', namely
>       `(u `relativeTo` baseURI)'
>     In the expression: fromMaybe u (u `relativeTo` baseURI)
>     In the first argument of `map', namely
>       `(\ u -> fromMaybe u (u `relativeTo` baseURI))'
>
> try using the 1.20 branch on GitHub instead, as I had to work around a
> missing upper bound on network in the HTTP package. cabal-install only
> builds reliably with HTTP-4000.2.5 and higher.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've prepared the 1.20 release candidates. I now need some help testing,
>> especially on Windows as I don't have a Windows machine.
>>
>> To install the release candidates simply run:
>>
>>     cabal install http://johantibell.com/files/Cabal-1.20.0-rc.tar.gz
>> http://johantibell.com/files/cabal-install-1.20.0-rc.tar.gz
>>
>> Please report any issues on the bug tracker:
>> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues
>>
>> If I haven't heard of anything release blocking bugs (or last minute
>> important patches) in a couple of days, I will make these tarballs the
>> official release.
>>
>> The commits used are tagged in the repo as Cabal-v1.20.0-rc and
>> cabal-install-v1.20.0-rc.
>>
>> -- Johan
>>
>>
>
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