On 07 April 2005 11:18, Graham Klyne wrote:
I've just discovered that my recent checkins of Network.URI were not safe. I thought that I had run the changes against my test suite, but just discovered that the test suite was actually being compiled against the version of Network.URI shipped with GHC 6.4.
I had expected the "-i" option on the GHC command line (see below) to override the shipped version of Network.URI.
As it happens, I've now checked the new module is OK by forcibly renaming the Network.URI files that were installed with GHC 6.4. But this raises a concern for me: how can I safely and reliably test a replacement version of a GHC-shipped library module?
In GHC you can say '-hide-package network' (or, perhaps better '-ignore-package network') to remove the network package from the module namespace. It will then use the local version instead. Cheers, Simon