Priorities for 6.10

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:12 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >  > 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.
> >
> > We'll also have to include the zlib and HTTP packages, which are
> >  dependencies of cabal-install.
> 
> Why? I want to ship a binary cabal.exe, which will be pre-linked. If
> they want to upgrade cabal, then you'll need to do a cabal install of
> them (which is trivial with cabal-install), but otherwise there is no
> need for zlib or HTTP.

Sure, if we do not want them then we can build them and then
specifically exclude them from the final installer image.

Duncan