Getting Cabal 1.2[12] ready for GHC 7.10.1 RC1

[Luite Stegeman]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>
wrote:

>
> Mostly out of curiousity: is there *any* conceivable chance of getting
> the GHCJS bits merged in? (I'm hoping/guessing the maintainer of GHCJS
> is also on this list.)
>

Yes, I am on this list. A small part has already been merged, and there's a
pull request for the changes in the package description and flags, which
include the GHCJS compiler flavour. While discussing the patch with Duncan,
we agreed that a few changes were in order, which I've made, I'll amend the
pull request later today.

What's left then is the backend itself. The changes there are only in the
build system, so they don't touch the public API / file formats, but on the
other hand they do touch quite a bit of code and require some restructuring
of the GHC backend to allow some of the code to be reused without
copy/pasting the whole backend (smaller customizations are required for
ghc-pkg and haddock).

I'm going to spend some time this week to submit the next part of the code,
test it with my experimental GHC 7.10 branch of GHCJS. The important public
changes have been discussed / prepared already, so it'll mostly come down
to how well this code will stand up to scrutinization of the reviewers.

luite
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