Is Cabal a core library?

[Mikolaj Konarski]

Hi Andrew,

We discussed this on the list and on today's cabal devs
meeting and we are grateful for the proposal and we don't
only accept it, but we'd like to ask you to consider all
cabal packages (`Cabal`, `Cabal-syntax`, `cabal-install`
and `cabal-install-solver`) as core packages. They don't
really make much sense without each other and while
only two of them are GHC boot packages, if I'm not mistaken,
we posit they are all core packages of the Haskell ecosystem.

Cheers,
Mikolaj

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 12:11 AM Andrew Lelechenko
<andrew.lelechenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mikolaj,
>
> Just a gentle ping, did you come to a conclusion on this?
> (I’m not on cabal-devel mail list)
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
>
> > On 30 Oct 2024, at 09:03, Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj at well-typed.com> wrote:
> >
> > In fact, I'm not sure you are on the cabal-devel list, so I should
> > have added you to CC of this email.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj at well-typed.com>
> > Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 9:59 AM
> > Subject: Fwd: Is Cabal a core library?
> > To: <cabal-devel at haskell.org>
> >
> >
> > Andrew, thank you for your kind offer.
> >
> > Let me forward this to other Cabal developers.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mikolaj
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Andrew Lelechenko <andrew.lelechenko at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 1:50 AM
> > Subject: Is Cabal a core library?
> > To: Mikolaj Konarski <mikolaj at well-typed.com>, Hécate <hecate at glitchbra.in>
> >
> >
> > Hi Mikolaj and Hecate,
> >
> > There is a push to consolidate notions of boot (= needed to build GHC)
> > and core (= under CLC aegis) libraries, so that critical parts of
> > Haskell ecosystem are more resilient. How do you feel about
> > designating `Cabal` and `Cabal-syntax` as core packages?
> >
> > While at the moment Cabal has a very healthy team (thanks a ton for
> > your work!), there were moments in Cabal history when things were
> > drastically different. So having an additional safety net, such that
> > CLC is able to provide additional / emergency maintenance, could be
> > helpful in future.
> >
> > Designating a library as a core package does not impose much change on
> > day-to-day operations. CLC does not interfere with daily development
> > of Core Libraries as long as appointed maintainers keep them in an
> > appropriate shape and support healthy communication with contributors.
> > You can find the full policy at
> > https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee?tab=readme-ov-file#core-libraries
> >
> > (Feel free to forward to other Cabal developers)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Andrew
>