9 Oct
2008
9 Oct
'08
9:53 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:28:31PM -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote:
What needs to happen next is that these preferences be included into the hackage index that cabal-install and other clients download. This should be completely backwards compatible. The format allows for adding other files with different extensions and older clients will just ignore them.
So if you don't mind what I'll do is to add a "preferred-versions" text file into the archive and adjust the script that generates the 00-index.tar.gz file to pick up that text file too.
I have no objection to this.