Priorities for 6.10
Simon Marlow
marlowsd at gmail.com
Thu Jun 19 06:38:06 EDT 2008
Neil Mitchell wrote:
>> While I was away last week I jotted down a list of priorities for 6.10. Some of these are in the bug tracker and some aren't, but I think it'd be a good idea for us to first discuss what we really want to see happen in the 6.10 time frame and then update the ticket database to match.
>
> The thing that would be of biggest benefit to Windows developers is
> the inclusion of cabal.exe (cabal-install) in the binary installer.
> I'm not sure what build changes are required to allow this.
Does anyone have any objections to us doing this? I agree it would be a
substantial win. We should consider cabal-install to be a part of Cabal -
indeed the 'cabal' command is the preferred UI for Cabal now, so to ship
one without the other seems wrong.
Cheers,
Simon
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