Re: [Haskell-beginners] Cabal problems

On 01/10/2013 04:37 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Sergey Bushnyak mailto:sergey.bushnyak@sigrlami.eu> wrote:

Isn't it better to send patch with corrections to maintainer?

It is, but if the packages haven't been updated for new-style exceptions by now, they're probably effectively unmaintained. Do you want to take over maintainership?

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net I don't want to take over maintainership, area of my interest is slightly different and not covering games at all. Recently, I stumbled at this kind of problem by myself. I wrote to maintainer, submit patch and it's work now for new ghc.

The thing we should talk here, that cabal shouldn't even show package in install list, that don't builds on users current compiler. This information can be seen at hackage, but there still a lot of work is going on new hackage, which would be more accurate continuous integration portal. In this situation I always get sources and correct by myself. Maintainership policy is very controversial subject and discussed regularly in community. -- Best regards, Sergey Bushnyak