Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:17 +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Quick question: how do I build Haddock from the darcs repo?
You need a later version of Cabal. Later than 1.1.3.
Could not find module `Paths_Haddock': use -v to see a list of the files searched for (imported from Main.hs)
And now I'm stuck. There genuinely is no module called Paths_Haddock.
This module is generated by Cabal. But not in Cabal 1.1.3, a later version.
We really need a field:
cabal-depends: 1.1.4
So that older versions of Cabal can say "you need version ${cabal-depends} of Cabal to build this package".
There is such a field: cabal-version: >=1.1.4 but I didn't use it in Haddock (now fixed). This field doesn't help with all the backwards compatibility issues, particularly API changes in the Cabal libraries, as we know (see previous discussions). Cheers, Simon