On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:52:41AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
So a good solution to this would be to have two version bumps: one for development (2.7.x.x) and another bump for the final release (2.8.0.0). Then Cabal can make releases that relax the unix dependency to 2.7, which is fine because we'll never make a release of 2.7, it just keeps things working during development.
That sounded good, but while making the changes I realised that we are also not meant to eagerly update our copies of libraries, in case the latest versions aren't considered suitable for releasing with GHC. So perhaps we're better off just making ghc-only changes for the bumps for now, and sorting it out with upstream around release time. For now I've just made ghc-only changes, anyway. Thanks Ian