Cabal 1.24 status update

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi *,

Just a short update on the status of the 1.24 release. Since the GHC 8
release has been delayed somewhat, I've postponed creating the 1.24
branch. Will do that either before GHC 8 RC3 release or GHC 8 final
(if there won't be a GHC 8 RC3).

Here's the list of remaining unmerged PRs that I plan to merge before
creating the branch:

Cabal:

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2540 - Add support for platform
libraries (needs rebasing)
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2522 - Implement bash (with globstar)
style globbing (requires some work on my part)

cabal-install:

https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2916 - Fix space leak in solver
backjumping
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2914 - Fix space leaks in dependency
solver logging.
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2774 - Add the gen-bounds command
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2640 - init-config
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2882 - status command

Also, https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/3003 must be resolved
before the release.