1 Sep
2007
1 Sep
'07
2:57 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:34:43PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2007 20:13, Ross Paterson wrote:
[...] However a package that uses a boilerplate Setup.hs (as 90% of the packages on Hackage do) needs only backwards compatibility of the .cabal format, and that has been carefully preserved.
Alas, that's [not] true: Today I had to unbreak the "time" package exactly because the .cabal format has been changed.
Only because the development version of time.cabal was using the new extensions while they were being developed. The backwards compatibility is between released versions. The .cabal file in the time package in Hackage should still work with the new Cabal.