who's maintaining language-c? tis borken on hackage with 7.8 till a new version is pushed

[Roman Cheplyaka]

That's right, cabal "caches" alex/happy output in the tarball, so that
users who build the package don't need to have alex/happy installed.
Check yourself:

  % curl http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-c-0.4.2/language-c-0.4.2.tar.gz | tar tzf - | grep dist

So all maintainers of packages that use happy and/or alex have to
reupload the package with a version sdist'ed on a system with the latest
alex/happy to make it buildable with GHC 7.8.

Roman

* Daniil Frumin <difrumin at gmail.com> [2014-02-14 17:02:57+0400]
> > turns out that when the maintainer person does sdist, happy / alex are run locally by cabal somehow
> 
> Wow, how is that even possible? Where does it get alex/happy from? :O
> 
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Carter Schonwald
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > someone needs to help take over language C maintainer ship, because its
> > going to be broken on 7.8 unless someone pushes a sdist'd with a new happy/
> > alex to hackage (see https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/64 for an
> > example issue)
> >
> > I know Anthony and Jason have at points patched language-c for their
> > respective needs, so i'm cc'ing em :)
> >
> > -Carter
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> -- Daniil
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