28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
6:59 p.m.
Iavor Diatchki writes:
I just noticed that the public Hackage server has started refusing to accept packages that do not have an upper bound on "base". I think that this crosses the line of useful static checking and, instead of helping package maintainers, it creates more work for them. (A warning to the same effect would be just fine.)
It's not new: hackage rejects anything that Cabal's checkPackage marks
as worse than suspicious, and this became such an error some time ago:
Mon Jun 1 20:16:29 BST 2009 Duncan Coutts