On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:44 -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > hmm, couldn't figure out a way to login to reply.
It says on the front page :-) username "guest" and password "haskell'" (note the apostrophe at the end) > Hackage wrote: > > Replying to [ticket:220 duncan]: > > > The longer term solution is to allow installing multiple instances of > > the same versions of a package built against different versions of its > > dependencies. This is the functional Nix approach however it would > > probably also require support from ghc. > > > > Couldn't this lead to an exponential explosion in the number of package > > instances? > > only if you *actually* install all possible combinations, which seems > unlikely. If you're worried about all the old cruft hanging around > taking up space, maybe looking at Nix's garbage collection and other > features would be good sharing of experience. Right, Nix uses GC to clean up old combinations that are not used any more. Of course Nix is a proper package manger so it knows all code that uses a package where as we do not. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
