On 8/16/07, Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a newbie to the cabal-devel list, I don't know whether this question > has already been thought about much, and perhaps even has a really good > answer. > > I notice that the Cabal darcs repo now has a Cabal.cabal file that uses > configurations. Presumably this is self-bootstrapping. But is it still > possible to upgrade an older version of Cabal (e.g. supplied with > ghc-6.2) to the latest version, using only the older version of Cabal > itself?
No. Unfortunately, checking for the right cabal version is done after parsing, but exactly then do we get errors with the new syntax. Cabal bootstraps via a makefile, and this seems to work fine. For Windows, we might need a .bat file some time. Are there any other reasons why this should be possible? -- "Remember! Everytime you say 'Web 2.0' God kills a startup!" - userfriendly.org, Jul 31, 2006 _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
