On Sep 12, 2:51 am, wren ng thornton
On 9/11/10 3:43 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
- is there a "specification" of which are the "core" packages?
"core" as in *do not update*? Basically, what comes with GHC shouldn't be updated. Though I heard updating Cabal was okay.
I tried updating Cabal once (recently) and it broke things in the same way. FWIW.
My Cabal was upgraded and is alive, but the bugs we see don't make the upgrade reliable. Most variations of the trap I hit would have killed cabal, period. Some could have killed GHC. And even for my case, resurrecting my old friend Cabal after his attempted suicide was not for the faint-heart, and took much more time than letting him die and replacing him with some other friend, i.e. reinstalling from scratch the user packages - I just never allow my programmed friends to die, if I can avoid that. I value their liveness :-D. -- Paolo Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/