On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:41 +0000, C Rodrigues wrote: > I noticed that cabal will parse, but ignore, version tags.
Yes. > Arguably this is not the right thing to do, as it changes the > semantics of versions. It's precisely because the semantics of version tags is so useless (and inconsistent) that we stopped using them. > I'm not against discarding version tags, but I'd like to know if > there's a rationale for _silently_ discarding them. We've not yet removed tag from the parser for backwards compatibility. Clearly what we should do is add a big warning (or simply error) that such tags are no longer supported. I hope in time to get Data.Version changed to eliminate the tags entirely. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
