[GHC] #5994: Consider adding a flag to ghc's configure to automatically bootstrap and install cabal-install along with ghc

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#5994: Consider adding a flag to ghc's configure to automatically bootstrap and
install cabal-install along with ghc
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    Reporter:  td123             |       Owner:                  
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:                  
   Component:  Build System      |     Version:  7.4.1           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by td123):

 "In the future we'll make sure that there's a plan for a cabal-install
 release at or around the GHC release. That might be a new experimental
 version (using some mechanism to avoid everyone getting it by default), or
 it could be a point release of the current stable cabal-install. We'll do
 whatever makes the most sense at the time."

 This sounds good, although one concern is, what do distros like arch and
 gentoo use when they use the latest stable version of ghc? Would the
 experimental version of cabal-install be intended for those distros?

 "Does that address all the issues?"

 Yes.



 /me checks calendar if it's christmas.

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