Getting Cabal 1.2[12] ready for GHC 7.10.1 RC1

[Johan Tibell]

I went over the outstanding pull requests and merged some and left comments
on others. Unless I hear something from the authors of those pull requests
in the next couple of days, I will put out a 1.22 RC based on current
master.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Luite Stegeman <stegeman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Status update:
>
> All functionality from the ghcjs Cabal branch is now in pull requests
> [1] [2]. I have changed a few things in the GHCJS command line options
> (more consistent with GHC now), and GHCJS produces library archives
> (libHSpackage.js_a) for packages now, which makes GHCJS easier and
> more similar to GHC to deal with, and provides a better upgrade path
> if we need to store information in the future.
>
> I've updated the GHCJS master branch for this, and also the ghcjs
> branch of our fork [3] . Anyone upgrading their GHCJS should first
> update their Cabal. Use `ghcjs-boot --dev --clean` to upgrade the boot
> libraries.
>
> luite
>
> [1] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2269
> [2] https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2273
> [3] https://github.com/ghcjs/cabal
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>
> wrote:
> > On 2014-12-01 19:32, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> >> Hello Cabal developers!
> >>
> >> To keep it short: GHC 7.10.1 RC1 is planned for a release shortly before
> >> Xmas, and it would be great if there was a Cabal 1.22.x RC to go along
> >> with that.
> >>
> >> Is it possible for you to get Cabal (the library) in such a state by
> >> mid-December (i.e. in 2 weeks from now)?
> >>
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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