Release planning?

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Thanks Mikhail

When you make the release, do advertise to us non-Cabal-experts about the new no-reinstall ability and how to use it.  It's a game-changer.

Edward's blog post describes the issue
http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/09/is-no-reinstall-cabal-coming-to-ghc-8/
Having another blog post describing the solution would be excellent; with pointers from the Cabal home page.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com
|  [mailto:the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Glushenkov
|  Sent: 16 December 2015 22:49
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
|  Cc: Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>; cabal-devel <cabal-
|  devel at haskell.org>; Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com>
|  Subject: Re: Release planning?
|  
|  Hi Simon,
|  
|  On 14 December 2015 at 14:03, Simon Peyton Jones
|  <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
|  > |  Yes, there will be a release of Cabal/cabal-install together with
|  > | GHC  8.
|  >
|  > Can I ask what will be in it?  Specifically, I would love to know
|  what
|  > you plan concerning the issues in this snip:
|  
|  I've just posted a status update to the cabal-dev mailing list:
|  
|  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2farticl
|  e.gmane.org%2fgmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel%2f10456&data=01%7c01
|  %7csimonpj%40064d.mgd.microsoft.com%7cbf7f44b8e6ba4c9cab0108d3066b1145
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|  BtnJVBqix8djS1SrIsc%3d
|  
|  Cabal/cabal-install 1.24 will include Duncan's no-reinstall work in
|  some form (likely a "technical preview"). The Cabal library parts have
|  just been merged. Gershom's minimal HP patch is already in Cabal
|  master.
|  
|  It's possible that cabal-install 1.24 will not be released
|  simultaneously with Cabal 1.24, so the HP 8 release may also be
|  delayed a little bit.