Advance notice that I'd like to make Cabal depend on parsec

Gregory Collins greg at gregorycollins.net
Thu Mar 14 16:06:17 CET 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I want to give you advance notice that I would like to make Cabal depend
> on parsec. The implication is that GHC would therefore depend on parsec
> and thus it would become a core package, rather than just a HP package.
> So this would affect both GHC and the HP, though I hope not too much.


+1 from me, although the amount of potential knock-on work might be
discouraging. The current cabal-install bootstrap process (which is
currently pretty easy and is necessary at times) will get a bunch more deps
as a result of this change, no?

-- 
Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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