On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 16:36 -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote:
I propose two solutions:
* Fix the dependency resolver * Add support in Cabal and Hackage for suggested version constraints
So I'll aim to work on both issues this week and report back on how things are going.
Done! Four days and 15 patches later I can construct install plans for 710 packages from hackage using the darcs cabal-install and last nights ghc-6.10. (It would be more like 730 but I've not got gtk2hs built for 6.10, for ghc-6.8 it's 743 packages) The next step is to actually build everything and compare. We'll do this tomorrow and report results. There are three combinations we are interested in: * baseline: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.4 * new Cabal: ghc-6.8 and Cabal-1.6 * new ghc: ghc-6.10 and Cabal-1.6 So we'll try building all 700+ packages all three ways and compare the build reports. We'll report anything interesting that might indicate new ghc bugs. If all looks ok I'll also release Cabal-1.6. Duncan