On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:35 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:26:34AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
I'd like to get Hackage using the new check for base being bounded above. I think it'll make a big difference when it comes to future ghc/base upgrades. The last one was papered over by cabal-install defaulting to base 3 when the package author did not specify otherwise. That will not work forever. [...] For the practical issues:
I'll can send announcement to the haskell (+cafe) mailing list explaining what people have to do and the rationale.
It's ready to go.
Thanks Ross!
Would you like to send your announcement first?
Sent. I also realised if we're encouraging people to use: build-depends: base >= 3 && < 5 then cabal should be picking base 4 in this case. That was ticket http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/485 which I've just now implemented, but it need testing, back-porting and releasing as cabal-install-0.6.4. Duncan