On 2014-06-08 at 10:00:46 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: [...]
>> I'm specifically looking for builds off of the 7.8 branch so I can >> start testing point releases. > > Then I guess the easiest would be if Herbert would add that to his > PPA. Fwiw, there have been already 'ghc-7.8.3' packages in the PPA for about a week, which are snapshots of the upcoming 7.8.3 release (i.e. they correspond to the current ghc-7.8 Git branch). >> [2] And in case anyone's curious, restrictive upper bounds on >> transformers and template-haskell are preventing a build right now. > > > Hmm, it would be nice if cabal had a “best effort” mode where when some > of the requested packages cannot be built it at least builds the rest. > > Also, isn’t there a new flag to cabal to selectively ignore upper > bounds? (I can’t find the documentation for the latest cabal-install > online right now.) You mean this one: | --allow-newer[=PKGS] Ignore upper bounds in dependencies on some | or all packages. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
