Cabal for GHC 7.8

[Johan Tibell]

We could create a branch for 7.8, but I don't know which commit to branch
of. If someone can figure out which cabal 7.8 shipped with we can add the
branch.


On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <
chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> I noticed that the Cabal package doesn’t have a branch for ghc-7.8:
>
>   http://git.haskell.org/packages/Cabal.git
>
> Is that intended? Maybe as a result the instructions at
>
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources
>
> to check out a branch from the *GitHub mirror repos* doesn’t work either.
> It fails with
>
> == running git submodule update
> Cloning into 'libraries/Cabal'...
> fatal: remote error:
>   ghc/packages/Cabal is not a valid repository name
>   Email support at github.com for help
> Clone of 'git at github.com:ghc/packages/Cabal.git' into submodule path
> 'libraries/Cabal' failed
> git failed: 256 at ./sync-all line 122.
>
> Manuel
>
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