Matthew Pickering

copy: Take into account extra-dyn-lib-flavours when copying bundled library

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This fixes the DynWay case to match the other cases which take into account extra-dyn-lib-flavours.

cabal accidentally doesn't include abi hash for development compilers

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The current logic says ``` compilerAbiTag :: AbiTag compilerAbiTag = maybe NoAbiTag AbiTag (Map.lookup "Project Unit Id" ghcInfoMap >>= stripPrefix (prettyShow compilerId "-")) ``` If we look at `ghc --info`...

Status of Data.List compatibility warning

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There is currently a warning implemented in `-Wcompat` which warns you when importing `Data.List` in a non-qualified manner. ``` A.hs:3:8: warning: [-Wcompat-unqualified-imports] To ensure compatibility with future core libraries changes...

How to delete a pin?

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I wanted to test pins so I created a pin running.. ``` cachix pin ... ... ... ``` it displays on the web ui, so far so good. But now...

Only munge internal dependencies when printing when there is no explicit syntax

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Only munge internal dependencies when printing when there is no explicit syntax * In `postProcessInternalDeps` the shadowing logic which existed prior to cabal format 3.4 is implemented in a post...

Timeline for next Cabal release (support for profiled dynamic way)

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It would be very good if there could be a release of the `Cabal` library far in advance of the next GHC release so that `hadrian` can be built with...

Reduce amount of CI round-tripping required by contributors

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There is currently quite a lot of back-and-forth which is required when contributing patches to Cabal which makes the developer experience sometimes cumbersome. In my mind, the goal should be...

Remove legacy code from code base

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Cabal and cabal-install have a large amount of legacy code. Much legacy code for supporting different Haskell compilers, which is surely bitrotted at this point (untested on CI) - [...

Something seems wrong with ghcup installing bindist for i386 on debian 12

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Something goes wrong during installation which means not all the files are copied into the installation directories. * https://github.com/haskell/ghcup-metadata/actions/runs/9990740016/job/27612053068 I tried in a container unpacking and manually `./configure && make...