cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hi,

On 30 October 2014 21:30, Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-10-30 17:20 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>:
>> [...] So this just means that Cabal isn't necessarily *future compatible*
>> with future GHCs - they may change the package format, etc. But it is
>> backwards compatible with existing ones.
>
> OK, that's good to know. To be sure, I've just tested Cabal head + GHC
> 7.8.3, and it works. But as I've mentioned already, there seems to be
> *no* Cabal version which works with GHC head:
> https://travis-ci.org/haskell-opengl/StateVar/builds/39533448 Is this
> known to the Cabal people?

Yes, I know that the Cabal test suite wasn't passing on GHC HEAD for some time.

Re: the next release - I think it'll be out at the same time with GHC 7.10.1.