Johannes Waldmann
Daniel Fischer
writes: The problem is that otherpackages may depend on them too, so when cabal automatically reinstalls, those can break.
how can this be - if the re-installed package is compiled from the exact original source (as I just learned, cabal stores the sources)?
or do you mean "the dependent packages must be recompiled" - well, then cabal could just do it?
The latter, except that cabal-install doesn't know what you have installed (it can only go on the information supplied by ghc-pkg for now).
Of course I understand "lack of developer time". Could any of this be forked out as student projects?
Some of it was forked out to a GSoC project (a testing hook). Otherwise, I'm sure Duncan et. al. will support good-quality patches that solve the various bugs/feature requests on the bug tracker. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com