On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:54 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
marlowsd:
Don Stewart wrote:
Note that these builds are with "soft deps", provided on hackage,
base < 4 parsec < 3 HaXml == 1.13.* QuickCheck < 2
which train cabal-install to build a larger set of packages.
Will this happen automatically somehow, or will users have to do this manually?
Yes, Duncan and Ross have modified the scripts on hackage, so that a "preferred-versions" file is included in the Hackage index.
There was a day and a half or so when this change got accidentally reverted due to some mis-communication between myself and Ross (my fault). It's all fixed up now. Currently these preferred version are only taken into account by "cabal install" not "cabal configure" (though that's an obvious improvement to do). Duncan