Re: [Haskell-cafe] package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

2007-11-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 03:12 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: If you maintain a Haskell package this is for you. flag splitBase description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. library if flag(splitBase) build-depends: base = 3, containers else build-depends: base 3

Re: [Haskell-cafe] package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

2007-11-05 Thread Henning Thielemann
Splitting of the base package seems to have invalidated the links from HaskellWiki into the Library documentation. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

2007-11-05 Thread brad clawsie
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:35:11AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: By the way, if you have several common deps it's perfectly ok to factor them out like this: Flag splitBase Description: Choose the new smaller, split-up base package. Library Build-Depends: network, HTTP, HTTP-Simple,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

2007-11-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:47 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: When Cabal development started I suggested to use Haskell code as configuration file, because there will be much extensions and the package description will not fit into a simple syntax soon. So of course there is a trade-off to be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] package maintainers: updating your packages to work with GHC 6.8.1

2007-11-04 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Duncan Coutts wrote: If you maintain a Haskell package this is for you. So now that GHC 6.8.1 is out you'll want to test your package with it. We'd especially like maintainers of packages that are distributed on hackage.haskell.org to test their packages and update them