Getting Cabal 1.2[12] ready for GHC 7.10.1 RC1

[Johan Tibell]

I'm waiting for word from Thomas DuBuisson on
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/1910 then I'm ready to cut a RC.
There's already a 1.22 branch for people who want to test before that (e.g.
GHC HQ).

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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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