The bootstrap.sh script has to go

[Johan Tibell]

See https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/2310 for a continuation of the
sad bootstrap.sh saga.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> On 2014-12-30 at 21:23:19 +0100, Jake Wheat wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Simplify the bootstrap.sh process:
> >
> > * always use a fixed set of versions of packages for the dependencies
>
> For me, the primary use-case of `bootstrap.sh` is to be able to build a
> matching `cabal-install` executable for a given major GHC version w/o
> requiring having an existing cabal-install executable compatible w/ the
> GHC version I'm trying to bootstrap cabal-install with.  (If I had an
> older `cabal-install` executable, I would use that to bootstrap the new
> one)
>
> So, if a given cabal-install's bootstrap.sh would only support
> bootstrapping via its associated GHC major version
> (e.g. cabal-install-1.22.x would require GHC 7.10.x) then I guess the
> bootstrap.sh wouldn't need to perform any significant package version
> resolving, and could just use such a single fixed set of versions (and
> preferably in a sandbox to ignore any user pkg-db) as you seem to
> propose.
>
>
> Alternatively, GHC could start bundling cabal-install, which would IMHO
> eliminate the need for a bootstrap.sh in the first place (but we had
> that discussion already, and it would also require to pull
> cabal-install's dependencies into the GHC distribution, while OTOH GHC
> is trying to avoid acquiring additional build dependencies...)
>
> Cheers,
>   hvr
>
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