Re: [Haskell] possible bug in pretty-1.0.1.0

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 08:17 -0800, John MacFarlane wrote:
I noticed a difference in how "hang" works between pretty-1.0.0.0 and pretty-1.0.1.0. I think it's a bug. If this isn't the right place to report it, please let me know where I should. (Maintainer is listed as libraries@haskell.org, but that is a closed mailing list. Perhaps Cabal should include a report-bugs-at field?)
I'd just like to advertise the fact that as of Cabal-1.6 you can put a bug-reports field in your .cabal file and it will be displayed by hackage. We would like to encourage all package authors to use this. It can be a mailto: url to a maintainer or mailing list or it can be a http: url to a bug tracker website. (Cabal-1.6 also supports specifying darcs/git/whatever repos) Duncan

Hi Duncan,
I'd just like to advertise the fact that as of Cabal-1.6 you can put a bug-reports field in your .cabal file and it will be displayed by hackage.
Fantastic. Is it backwards compatible? i.e. if I add such a field, will Cabal-1.2 give warnings/errors? Thanks Neil

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 13:27 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Duncan,
I'd just like to advertise the fact that as of Cabal-1.6 you can put a bug-reports field in your .cabal file and it will be displayed by hackage.
Fantastic. Is it backwards compatible? i.e. if I add such a field, will Cabal-1.2 give warnings/errors?
It should give warnings but not errors. Unfortunately for the source repo stuff that uses a new section which the old parser did not handle quite so gracefully. Duncan
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