On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:17:15PM -0000, Claus Reinke wrote: > > Could the array/containers version bumps be done soon, please,
As far as I can see there are no code changes in the array package. I guess what we're really trying to do is work around cabal-install replacing libraries with ABI-incompatible builds? We could do that by bumping the 4th component of each library, so that that version isn't on hackage and thus cabal-install can't replace it. Some libraries might have their version numbers reduced when we release, but I don't think that's a problem. However, once the VCS changeover happens the plan is to use released versions of all the libraries, which means that we can't do that (unless we mangled their version numbers or something). > >Ian - I think this might be different from the policy we agreed before, > >but I can't remember where (if anywhere) we wrote it down. The difference > >is that we hadn't considered the possibility of people trying to use cabal > >install with a an unreleased HEAD build before, but I don't think there's > >a good reason why this shouldn't work. I think there are lots of reasons why released packages on hackage might not work with an unreleased compiler and libraries, but if we can make things better with little extra effort then I agree that we should do so. So, what's the best way forward? Bump the 4th component of all the libraries now, and make cabal-install better behaved before the VCS switchover? Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
