Daniel Gröber (dxld)

We've made progress since the but cabal-helper remains the blocker. See https://github.com/DanielG/ghc-mod/issues/900#issuecomment-335448771.

Can you explain the use case for this a bit more? Just a flag that chdirs somewhere hardly seems worthwhile, just use `sh -c 'cd foo/bar/baz; ghc-mod "$@"'` or some...

I still don't see a reason why `cabal exec sh -c 'cd wherever/; ghc-mod "$@"' check Foo.hs` wouldn't work though :)

As for h-i-e you'll want to ask @alanz.

I don't think security is a valid arguments against using this particular shell script but indeed I though windows support might be a concern. While I'm not happy about adding...

I've thought about this a while ago, I remember coming to the conclusion that it would be easy to implement but looking at it now I can't see an easy...

There are not plans for implementing this, no. But I'd be happy to point anyone in the right direction. Do you want to have a stab at implementing this maybe?...

If anyone else is experiencing this please make some noise otherwise I'm going to close this under the assumption everyone's got a working 8.0.2 environment now.

@ironchicken are you getting exactly the same error message? Could you post it if in doubt?

Right yeah that looks like the same problem. The easy solution is just to recompile `cabal-install` using something like `cabal update && cabal install cabal-install`. I'll see if I can...