On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 12:19 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:12:00PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > > > > HaXml (no longer builds) > > > > > > > > In what way does HaXml fail to build for Hugs? Is it easily > > > > fixable? > > > > > > ... and there's the famous Data.FiniteMap. > > > > So does anyone have any objections if I go ahead and commit the > > replacement (compatibility) implementation of Data.FiniteMap to the main > > repository for packages/base? > > I'd rather see HaXml updated to use Data.Map, perhaps with a > compatibility layer for older GHCs.
Using a compatibility layer is not that easy at the moment. There is a feature which will likely go into some upcoming version of Cabal that will make it easier to depend on different packages (eg a compat-finitemap) depending on what packages versions we are building against. For example you'd put something like the following in the .cabal file: configuration: package(base >= 2.0) build-depends: compat-finitemap However since this feature is not available yet it's rather hard to add a compatibility layer. Generating the .cabal file is a no-no. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
