#419: cabal-install should handle packages that need a later Cabal version better ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: jimburton | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.4.0.2 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.3 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by duncan): * summary: cabal-install: upgrade complains about missing .cabal file => cabal-install should handle packages that need a later Cabal version better Comment: The problem is that cgi-3001.1.7.1 uses syntax that is new in Cabal-1.6 and your version of cabal-install is using Cabal-1.4. So it's not that the file is missing (it isn't) but the .cabal file cannot be parsed. Try upgrading cabal-install and try again: `cabal install cabal-install` So there's not a lot we can do about this now. However we should be able to make cabal-install be a bit more graceful in handling packages that require a later version of Cabal to parse properly. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/419#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects