On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:39, Peter Simons
Rémy Oudompheng writes:
> https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch/issues#issue/19.
the gist of this issue is that "parsec >= 3.0 || == 2.1.*" is translated to "parsec>=3.0", which is just plain wrong. Now, wouldn't it be easiest to modify cabal2arch so that it translates that specification to "parsec>=2.1"? A straight-forward algorithm to accomplish that would be to use the *lowest* version bound in these kinds of alternatives. Right now, cabal2arch appears to be using the *first* version bound, which is not exactly optimal.
Am I missing something?
Well, there's an obvious problem with what you suggest, since "parsec>=2.1" is plain wrong too! How common is this type of dependencies in practice? Personally I wouldn't write a dependency like that, instead I'd use a flag, but trying to enforcing that behaviour would be plain silly :) /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus