Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> We've never supported building with an older version of cabal, but
> fortunately that's never necessary since it can always self-bootstrap:
Ah, I see. That's quite clever. So any new version of Cabal will
always depend on itself to install itself, ignoring any pre-existing
version of Cabal. So in fact, you do not even need to have Cabal
installed already, to get started!
Regards,
Malcolm
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