Triweekly update from the GHC DevX team at IOG.
Previous updates can be found here.
High-level Summary
This sprint, work on releasing GHC 9.6.7 and on building GHC with Cabal has continued. GHC 9.6.7 should be released very soon now. We can now build GHC and boot libraries with cabal-install, paving the way to reinstallable boot libraries.
Details
Luite: has completed the GHC 9.6.7 release. See GHC#25559 and GHC!13740.
Sylvain: worked on bootstrapping GHC and boot libraries with cabal-install. I managed to build a stage2 non-cross compiler with it. There are still a lot of rough edges to improve though. See stable-haskell:ghc#3
Sylvain: the merge of the ghc-prim package into ghc-internal has finally be
completed. See GHC#24453
and GHC!13752