Re: [arch-haskell] Upgrading to monad-control-0.3

On 01/03/2012 10:18 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:12, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:

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Indeed but I support the concept of the haskell-platform. It is too restrictive to only packages able to track the latest versions of their dependencies.

I suggest we try this technique on one case first and the text package seems to be a good example. We could package the latest version of text and upgrade some package which depend on it. I'm sorry, but what "technique" are you referring to here?

There was a proposal (in the far past) to add "-hp" to the name of all packages which belong to haskell platform (HP). The different name would allow to have a HP package version and one more package version which was supposed to be the very latest stable version. HP packages could depend only on other HP packages. Non-HP packages could depend on HP packages and also on non-HP packages. Not sure whether there is some fundamental problem why this cannot work or it was only forgotten. Looks to me like it could work. Peter.