On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 09:45 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi,
I have base == 4.0.* in my hlint cabal file (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/hlint/hlint.cabal). Does that require Cabal 1.4 or 1.6? Apparently 1.2 fails to parse it, but with a cabal-version >= 1.2 declaration I don't get any warnings from Cabal 1.6. So what is the minimum verison for the version wildcard,
1.6
and why doesn't cabal warn me I got it wrong?
Because I only added the check in the development version a couple weeks ago. It changes the representation of the VersionRange type to distinguish the wildcard in the abstract syntax so it cannot be pushed into the 1.6.x branch. However hackage can start using it immediately with just a re-compile and that will prevent people uploading packages with this mistake. See: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/387 Duncan