17 Aug
2007
17 Aug
'07
6:33 a.m.
Duncan Coutts
Is it still possible to upgrade an older version of Cabal (e.g. supplied with ghc-6.2) to the latest version, using only the older version of Cabal itself?
We've never supported building with an older version of cabal, but fortunately that's never necessary since it can always self-bootstrap:
Ah, I see. That's quite clever. So any new version of Cabal will always depend on itself to install itself, ignoring any pre-existing version of Cabal. So in fact, you do not even need to have Cabal installed already, to get started! Regards, Malcolm