
18 Apr
2008
18 Apr
'08
6:18 a.m.
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 13:59 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Duncan,
Friday, April 18, 2008, 1:43:24 PM, you wrote:
older Cabal versions). We can make it stricter again in the future when Cabal-1.4+ is much more widely deployed.
the problem, imho, is that such tools as Cabal, GHC, Hackage should be built with forward and backward compatibility in mind. otherwise, Haskell will still remain mostly a hacker tool
Yes! Yes you're absolutely right, that's why I've been fixing it :-) Duncan