[Haskell-cafe] cabal 3.8 pre-released!

[Carter Schonwald]

doing those two pieces is *amazing* and jailbreaks a lot of amazing
tooling/experiments being possible in userspace! props to all who were
involved

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 2:56 PM Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj at well-typed.com>
wrote:

> > This looks great!
>
> Thank you. :O)
>
> > Is the solver being factored out as its own package a new architecture
> change ?
>
> It's a new old change, many years in the brewing by generations
> of cabal developers and now finally (to be) released. We are equally
> proud of the separation of Cabal-syntax package, again a collaborative
> effort, started with a mega-commit by Patrick Dougherty.
>
> A warning though: the APIs of the new packages are not mature yet,
> because not enough people use them and give feedback, because
> they are not mature yet. So expect lots of breakage, guarded by major
> version bumps. E.g., we re-export too much stuff from Cabal-syntax
> to limit the breakage of Cabal, to give users a sporting chance
> to transition to the split API before it's the only one available.
>
> All the best,
> Mikolaj
>
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