On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Bram Neijt wrote:
I think it would be interesting to test build a package with the "latest" and "oldest" allowed dependencies, to see if the dependency boundaries hold. For example, build the text[1] package with version 0.2 of test-framework-hunit (oldest allowed according to .cabal file) to see if that is still works.
It would be great to have a tool to do this. Maybe it could be just another option in cabal-install, like the --constraint option?
Does anybody know of previous work on that? Does anybody have pointers on how to build with a specific version set? What is the easiest way to parse the dependencies in the cabal file, API pointers are also very much appreciated :)
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.16.0.3/doc/html/Distribu...