#928: Modular solver needs support for ghc-6.12's base-wrapping
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Reporter: kosmikus | Owner: kosmikus
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.14
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD
Severity: normal | Keywords: solver
Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.12.3
Platform: |
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In ghc-6.12, we had the situation that base-3 was a wrapper around base-4.
The modular solver can currently not handle that situation, thereby making
it mostly useless when used with ghc-6.12. For later ghc versions, this no
longer occurs, thus isn't an issue. This is one reason why the modular
solver currently is not the default.
Options:
* Add a hack to the modular solver to deal with it, much like it is
done in the topdown solver.
* Make the default solver being used dependent on the version of ghc
(but that might be confusing).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/928>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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