patch applied (cabal): Check for the required cabal version early in parsing

Wed Apr 9 08:46:55 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts * Check for the required cabal version early in parsing Previously we only checked the "cabal-version" field after parsing and all other configure processing. If the package really needs a later Cabal version it is of course highly likely that parsing or configure are going to fail and the user is not going to get the helpful error message about the version of Cabal required. So now we do the check early during parsing. If a later version is required and parsing subsequently fails, we now report the version issue, not the subsequent parse error. If parsing succeeds we still issue a warning which should be a useful hint to the user if subsequent configure processing fails. M ./Distribution/PackageDescription/Parse.hs -15 +34 View patch online: http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080409154655-adfee-7618f7527...