On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 07:52:10PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Is there any chance that we could bless some revision of Cabal that will compile with GHC 6.6.1, give it a name, and then go back and resplit things in preparation for future greatness?
We already have this: The version that comes with 6.6.1 is blessed and named, and the HEAD contains future greatness. I assume there is some more recent change that you need, though? If you need something from the latest Cabal then there are 3 solutions: * Remove the "pretty, directory, old-time, process" deps from the .Cabal file locally * Install empty "pretty, directory, old-time, process" packages * Write a remove_new_libs in Cabal's Setup.hs, similar to the add_extra_libs in the base package. I'm not sure how you'd work out when this needs to be done, though. The first one is the easiest for a one-off, the second is easier if you're going to follow Cabal development and the last has the advantage of being something that can go into the repo and fix it for everyone. Thanks Ian