2013.4.0.0 proposal - getting to alpha

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 26 November 2013 15:46, Mikhail Glushenkov
<the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Mark Lentczner
> <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is the current status of the 2013.4.0.0 proposal.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Cabal:
>>         Cabal: 1.16.0 → 1.18.1.2 consensus seems to be that this will be
>> okay
>
> Will it be fine to include both versions of Cabal with the installer
> (to avoid building GHC myself)? The installer can run `ghc-pkg hide
> Cabal-1.16` as the final step, so the user will never even see the
> extra copy of Cabal.

Is this necessary?

For me at least, "ghc-pkg list" still shows non-exposed packages (but
shades them blue in the output list; I've also had them appear in
braces before IIRC).  Using ghci or just ghc with Cabal modules will
default to the highest version unless specified otherwise.

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