HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

[Gabor Greif]

On 4/17/13, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> cabal-install 1.16.0 and 1.16.0.1 have some serious bugs that one
> encounters rather quickly.  For example, at work I wasted some time until I
> figured out that cabal was generating a 'Paths_'  module that does not
> compile.   Because of this, you can't even use it to install a newer
> version of itself, where the problem is fixed: you have to manually
> bootstrap the new version with the script!

I came up with this.

http://heisenbug.blogspot.fr/2013/02/old-cabal-subhell.html

Pretty much what you have experienced.

Cheers,

    Gabor
>
> I think it would be quite unfortunate to make yet another GHC release that
> ships with it, let alone add it to the Haskell platform.
>
> -Iavor
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> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:48:26PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> >
>> > In the absence of a GHC-7.6.3, I'm not sure if it's practical for the
>> > HP
>> > to bump the Cabal version.
>>
>> My proposal was 7.6.3 was a minimal release in a very short timeframe,
>> to just fix #7748. Any additional changes introduce a possibility of
>> regression. If you think that 7.6.2+1.16.0 would be OK, then it sounds
>> like the fixes in 1.16.0.3 wouldn't be worth the risk (there are a
>> number of GHC fixes that we won't be merging either, for the same
>> reason).
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ian
>>
>>
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