Ross Paterson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote:
While trying out cabal-install today, I stumbled across the following: I wanted to install XmlRpc which depends on HaXml and works with HaXml-1.13.2. However, HaXml-1.17 which has also been uploaded to hackageDB changed an exposed module's name and XmlRpc doesn't work with it anymore.
I'm wondering how to avoid such situations. I appears to me that expecting the maintainer of every package depending on HaXml to update their dependencies "after the fact" doesn't make sense because it leaves an arbitrarily long window where the package won't build straight out of hackageDB.
We could decide on a standard interpretation of version numbers, e.g. major.minor.patch. To support this, we'd want wildcards like 1.13.* in version ranges.
In the meantime, I'll remove HaXml-1.17 from HackageDB.
I think that the correct solution to this problem would be to make a new release of haxr (which used to be XmlRpc) that works with HaXml 1.17. On a side note, I think that XmlRpc should be removed, or there should be a way for one package to obsolete another. The XmlRpc package has been renamed to haxr, to have a more uniform naming within the package. /Björn