Re: cabal-install for ghc 6.12 rc1

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:49 +0100, Robin Green wrote:

Uh-oh. This looks like a big chunk of work (the package index type is no longer polymorphic in cabal 1.8.0).

Yes. Installed packages are no longer identified by a PackageId, they're now identified by a separate InstalledPackageId and there can be multiple installed packages with the same PackageId. The impact on cabal-install is non-trivial.

Has anyone else worked on this? Is there some secret branch of cabal-install somewhere that works on ghc 6.12?

I have some incomplete patches locally. I've been a bit pressed for time recently however. Duncan