On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 05:22:26PM -0400, Carter Schonwald wrote:
per se, thats what hackage DOES now. Though it is valid to want some sort of +patchlevel suffix to be visible for distro engineering purposes or such.
Speaking as a hackage trustee, this .cabal editing facility has been a VERY VERY good thing overall. A lot of problems have been prevented because of it, and that its creating new problems that haven't existed before should be considered a testament to its success! ;)
If you define success as "swapping one set of problems for another", then we have very different definitions of success ;) Seriously though, I don't doubt that the feature has value *for some users* it's just a bit unfortunate that it was implemented in a way that detracts value for other users. Especially when I suspect there is a very easy way to implement it that wouldn't have impacted those other users at all. I'm not a cabal-install user, so I'm curious to hear how this change works with cabal-install 1.18.0.5, which is what we package in ArchHaskell. Any problems with that? If so, will support for this feature be backported? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Goto labels should be left-aligned in all caps and should include the programmer's name, home phone number, and credit card number. -- Abdul Nizar