Removing GHC's dependency on Cabal

Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 14:30:02 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 24 July 2014 16:07, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
>
> So while Duncan’s Proposal has no such dependency, in Simon’s proposal
> there is one. Will ghc-db’s interface be stable enough that the Cabal
> developers will be happy to build against a very old version of it?

Cabal's policy is to support versions of GHC that are up to 3 years
old, so I think this could be solved with a combination of #ifdefs and
automatic testing.


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