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Returning to the example from: https://github.com/haskell/error-messages/issues/42 , when FlexibleInstances is already on we get the not-that-bad error ``` ghci> 1 + [2,3] :6:1: error: * No instance for (Num [a0])...

tool:GHC
type:error-message
status:Composing error message

Given that lots of programs now support response files, and that we're teaching haskell tools one-by-one to support response files, do we want to put support for calling programs with...

Note: we need to be careful to avoid symlink-hell here.

enhancement

We should make it clearer that there's a nice way to switch between ghc versions installed with multiple platforms.

As per https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5t6ggy/installation_of_haskell_platform_in_windows_10/ Note that this only becomes apparent as an issue when the platform is installed with a distinct systemwide admin account from the user account. The reported issue...

Windows

We need to detect/prove for need of -no-pie in calling gcc. If we do see it, we need to tweak the ghc settings fie to have the three following settings...

Arguably, since this is where the stack executable lands, it should be added. On the other hand, our installation of stack follows the lead of the stack installer, which doesn't...

As inspired by https://github.com/haskell/pvp/issues/55 this PR does two things. First it changes "other changes" to "last-component changes" to disambiguate that this only covers other changes which are "extremely minor". Second,...

as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57932348/cabal-install-works-but-cabal-list-does-not-find-package `cabal list` shows which libraries are installed in the ghc pkgdb, but does not show libraries that are "installed" via global env files. > >cabal list easyplot...

type: enhancement
cabal-install: nix-local-build
cabal-install: cmd/list

Now that there are proper static pointers in ghc, is the remotetable necessary, or can it just be eliminated?

distributed-static