On 10/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Lynagh</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:igloo@earth.li">igloo@earth.li</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>We are pleased to announce the Second Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.</blockquote><div><br>I am using release candidate  2. I noticed some problems with Cabal, so I uninstalled 1.1.4 and installed the latest version from the Darcs repository. Now, programs that use the GHC library won't build:
<br><br>ghc.exe: unknown package: Cabal-1.1.4 (dependency of ghc-6.5.20061001)<br><br>Does the ghc package really need exactly version 1.1.4? If so, then the Cabal README should be changed, because it tells people to uninstall old versions of Cabal before installing new versions. 
<br><br>From the README (<a href="http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal/README">http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/Cabal/README</a>):<br><pre>This is the recommended method of installing Cabal.<br><br>If you have an older version of Cabal installed, you probably just
<br>want to remove it:<br><br>  $ ghc-pkg unregister Cabal<br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br><br>Regards,<br>Brian<br></span></pre></div></div>