On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 10:52 +0200, Martijn van Steenbergen wrote:

Duncan Coutts wrote:

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For future reference this is now in the new Cabal FAQ: http://haskell.org/cabal/FAQ.html

which is now linked from the cabal home page.

Neat. That's gonna be helpful.

"The default version of the parsec package is version 2.x."

Is parsec special in this regard?

Only slightly special: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/preferred-versions -- A global set of preferred versions. -- -- This is to indicate a current recommended version, to allow stable and -- experimental versions to co-exist on hackage and to help transitions -- between major API versions. -- -- Tools like cabal-install take these preferences into account when -- constructing install plans. -- base < 4 parsec < 3 HaXml == 1.13.* QuickCheck < 2 Duncan