#813: Cabal should warn if the Cabal-Version range is too lax
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.1.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Comment(by duncan):
When you run `cabal check` it does issue a warning:
{{{
The following errors will cause portability problems on other
environments:
* The 'test-suite' section is new in Cabal 1.10. Unfortunately it messes
up
the parser in older Cabal versions so you must specify at least
'cabal-version: >= 1.8', but notethat only Cabal 1.10 and later can
actually
run such test suites.
}}}
We do not however want to require that all .cabal files with test-suites
specify `cabal-version: >= 1.10` because this would then prevent such
packages from building with older Cabal versions. Cabal-1.8 will just
ignore unknown sections, so it can continue to build packages that have
test-suite sections.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/813#comment:1>
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