Do really pluigins needs Cabal (>=1.4 && <1.5) ???
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cabal install plugins
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires Cabal ==1.6.0.1 however
Cabal-1.6.0.1 was excluded because plugins-1.3.1 requires Cabal ==1.4.*