RE: Cabal etc
Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>
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| > This seems pretty urgent to me.
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| Well, we certainly need to get it sorted out before releasing GHC 7.8.
| And actually, it would be better if we could do so before 7.6.2, and
| ship a Cabal that supports dynamic-by-default with 7.6.2. That way a
| cabal-install built with 7.6.2 will support 7.8. I've opened #7439 for
| this, so that we don't forget.
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| In the mean-time, if it's causing problems for developers, then we can
| disable dyamic-by-default on all platforms by default in the HEAD for
| now.
Well, we know that it is causing problems for developers. (Both Daniel and me had to be helped by Simon.) So I think that we should
(a) either switch it off
(b) or publish clear instructions on what to do
The advantage of (b) is that you'll get earlier feedback about problems. If we only switch it on when we release, won't we simply defer all those errors?
Maybe the thing to do is
(c) switch it off until the proposed-for-release solution
is implemented. If that is #7439, then let's do that next!
Simon