On 7/26/05, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Also, it would be nice if the package list was sorted, so that (Cabal-1.0) comes immediately before (Cabal-1.1.1) immediately before (Cabal-1.1.2) - Brian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
