Also allow latest aeson, network-wait, optparse-applicative in cabal-testsuite.

Artem Pelenitsyn authored 2 years ago and andreas.abel committed 2 years ago

- add cabal-install-solver to the list of main packages in the repo

- turn ways to install cabal-install into a list instead of a sequence of headers

- add GHCup as the preferred option for getting cabal

- add a reference to CONTRIBUTING.md

Add some debugging to CmdRun/Terminate test

We've seen some instability in the test, compare

  https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/8416

This adds timestamped output to make it easier to
see what goes wrong in case the test fails again.

This makes the `finally` apply to the last `do` block as intended.
No real effect on the test, though.

Bump cabal-bootstrap-gen to GHC 9.2.4 ecosystem.

Also polish README a bit.

ci: use ubuntu-latest instead of ubuntu-18.04

Builds with ubuntu-18.04 are failing with

  This is a scheduled Ubuntu-18.04 brownout.

due to deprecation of the action runner:

  https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6002

unbreak cabal haddock --disable-documentation

Fix optional test-suite/benchmark type docs

[ docs ] fix typo in cabal update’s help

Exclude CI job 8.10.7 on Windows that corrupts all CI

This reverts commit cd7a9128.

It's not needed any more, probably, because another workaround
fixes CI differently, probably. As long as it's deterministic enough...

Bump package process dependency version to 1.6.15.0 and move from Cabal to cabal-install

In this way we no longer enforce the fixed process in our own
tools (except cabal-install) and third-party tools using Cabal
the library, but given the possibility of deps conflicts,
this less intrusive approach may be better.

Fix compilation on old GHCs (fixes #8371)

in case past GHC users find the warnings helpful.

Turn off DeterministicTrivial test (see #8356)

pretty-print run targets on failure 

When generating `Paths` modules, define functions when used