[darcs-users] darcs.cabal question

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 14:15:38 UTC 2009


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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Petr Rockai  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gwern Branwen  writes:
>> Assuming it's correct that we still support GHC 6.6 (for some reason I
>> thought we'd dropped support for it), is there any reason our
>> darcs.cabal sets -fglasgow-exts? Building without it only breaks on
>> src/Darcs/Patch/Show.lhs and that's easily remedied by either a GADTs
>> LANGUAGE pragma or chucking -fglasgow-exts into its OPTIONS_GHC
>> pragma.
> if you mean inside the "witnesses" executable, that's just how it was in the
> GNUmakefile I believe. If there's a reasonable way to fix that, go ahead --
> patches welcome.

I see. In that case, so far as I know it's removable in favor of a
- -fglasgow-exts inside Show.lhs itself; since we can't simply use a
GADTs pragma because of 6.6 support.

> Anyhow, I'd like to see Cabal as the default build method for 2.3. Yesterday,
> lispy asked me whether I really want to remove the configure one and I said
> this: "Well, if someone volunteers to maintain it, sure, but I won't hold it
> against anyone if it falls apart." You can probably consider that as official
> policy for 2.3. Either way, the torch is now in Kowey's hands -- the
> development will happen in the darcs.net repository of course. I will send in a
> few cabal fixes, hopefully later today.
>
> Yours,
>   Petr.

Can't say I disagree.

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gwern
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