[Haskell-cafe] Info on dependencies among libs distributed with ghc?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 21.04.2014, 11:38 +0200 schrieb Magnus Therning:
> Then I have to say it is rather irritating that there is no way for me
> to safely provide the latest version of cabal-install!

the same problem affects Debian, and I find it equally irritating. Not
sure how Fedora handles this – Jens, did you find a problem around this?

One possibility would be to manually bundle the Cabal and cabal-install
sources into one (dpkg supports source packages with multiple original
tarballs), build the new Cabal just to be used to build cabal-install
and link that statically (which is the default). This would provide an
up-to-date cabal-install binary without having to ship a new Cabal
version as a library. Or does cabal-install require the matching version
of Cabal to be registered to work?


Alternatively it might be possible to build ghc with a newer Cabal. Not
sure what that might break.


I believe there was talk to avoid having ghc depend on Cabal (it uses
very little of it anyways), and indeed, there is
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8244
but work got stalled 7 months ago. Fixing tht  would solve the problems
for us distributions – maybe someone wants to pick up the work?

Greetings,
Joachim

PS: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8947 is a related bug
(though about ghc’s dependency on binary, not on Cabal).




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