`make' for profiling

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:11:33AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 21 September 2005 11:12, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 10:11:46AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >> On 20 September 2005 12:03, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Dear GHC developers,
> >>> 
> >>> I have a user's wish for the versions > 6.4.1:
> >>> 
> >>>   the possibility to `make' a project with profiling,
> >>>   without user play with the Cabal version substitution.
> >> 
> >> It's possible, but unlikely that we'll do it.  It requires porting
> >> the required changes from the new Cabal version to the old version
> >> witout changing any library APIs.  Of course, if someone were to
> >> send us a patch...
> > 
> > 
> > Does this mean that  ghc-6.4.1, and further versions too,
> > will be without profiling?
> 
> Of course not!  Profiling works in 6.4.1 just like it has in previous
> versions.  What is missing is profiling support in Cabal as shipped with
> 6.4.1, which is what I thought you were asking for.  Newer versions of
> Cabal support profiling, and all you have to do is upgrade Cabal.


My initial question can be formulated this way: 
which future official release of GHC will contain a Cabal version 
which supports profiling?
(such a release was my user's wish)

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Serge Mechveliani
mechvel at botik.ru