On 26 July 2005 09:23, Lennart Kolmodin wrote:
> When working with multiple versions of a package you often want to use
> the most recent version.
> A feature that would help for package systems is to be able to query
> ghc-pkg for the best version, or to list the versions in increasing
> version order.
>
> Something like:
>
> $ ghc-pkg best_version Cabal
> Cabal-1.1.1
>
> $ ghc-pkg versions Cabal
> Cabal-1.0 Cabal-1.1.1
>
> You get the picture. Obviously, this feature isn't critical since we
> could use 'ghc-pkg list' and work our way from there, but it would be
> nice. If you like the idea we might send you a patch.
> What do you think?
Sure, I'll commit a patch if you send one. Perhaps
$ ghc-pkg list Cabal
Cabal-1.0 Cabal-1.1.1
would be the simplest extension?
Cheers,
Simon
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