Cabal developers meeting of the 31/08/2023

Thu Aug 31 17:38:11 UTC 2023

Hi everyone, here are the minutes of today's meeting:

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## Next Release

Pre-release binaries for 3.10.2.0 are located on GitLab
<https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/cabal/-/pipelines/83511/builds>.

Most Linux users can use the linux-alpine bindist
<https://gitlab.haskell.org/haskell/cabal/-/jobs/1651807/artifacts/download?file_type=archive>
.

## HSoC

Suganya has submitted the latest PR on the Cabal error codes, this time
targeting cabal-install: Cabal-Install Package Errors #9219
<https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9219>

## Solver PRs

There have been several PRs to the solver in order to improve the quality
of life:

* Removing chooseSolver and inline Modular solver as default choice #9206
<https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9206>
* Solver "rejecting" message is too verbose #9159
<https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9159>
* Add custom GHA markers in solver output #9199
<https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/9199>
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