On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:51 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
So network-2.2.0.0 should be linked against base-3 within the binary dist of ghc-6.10 (or not shipped with ghc-6.10 at all.
In fact it worked after I've unregistered my global network-2.2.0.0, first! (but I didn't get much further, see below)
network-2.2.0.1 is now on hackage which should resolve the issue.
Normally cabal-install would use base-3 but in this case it's picking 4 because the version that is already installed used 4 so the assumption is that since the same version is already installed then it does indeed work with base 4. Of course that's not true here because the package has changed without the version being bumped.
Or cabal-install should be smarter (or less smart).
Unfortunately it cannot be less smart or it'd try rebuilding haskell98 against base 3.
So why is the version of network not bumped, yet? The maintainer is libraries@haskell.org. Would it interfere with ghc-6.8?
Done, and it works with (at least) ghc-6.6.1, 6.8.2 and 6.10.0.recent. Duncan